The Lake District National Park Partnership has reassessed its carbon footprint and is encouraging residents, businesses and visitors to support its efforts to reduce the impact of climate change on the Lake District.
The lights in the Keswick to Threlkeld Trail tunnel have been connected ahead of news that the trail will officially be reopened to the community on 5 December, on the fifth anniversary of Storm Desmond.
The Lake District National Park’s Fell Top Assessor team return today for the 2020 winter season. They might just have one of the most socially distanced roles in the UK. Long before this year’s coronavirus pandemic the Fell Top Assessors have been used to working in solitary conditions to keep walkers safe on the fells.
Lake District camp sites are available all over the National Park – from lake side pitches to fell top camping, wild sites to full facilities, search and book Lake District campsites.
The Boot Riverside Action Group (BRAG) teamed up with the Lake District National Park, other public bodies, organisations and businesses to find funding for major improvements to around four kilometres of beautiful trails in Eskdale.
Date of next conservation area appraisal and link to map with current boundaries.
Bowness Draft Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan Consultation
We're looking for new volunteer wayfinders to help us promote Brockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre in Windermere.
Visitors to the Lake District are once again enjoying the health and wellbeing benefits of the National Park, and this season that includes a warm welcome from the Authority’s 75 new visitor welcome volunteers.
After a long winter, we’re finally able to spend more time outdoors again, discover a new adventure and connect with nature. The value of our green spaces has never been higher as we recover from the effects of the pandemic. This John Muir Day, Graham Watson, John Muir Award Manager for Cumbria, celebrates six Cumbrians who are looking after these special places and working for a better future. Graham asks: “Who are our modern day motivators?”.
National Parks Week 2015 is a celebration of everything that is special and unique about Britain’s breathing spaces. This year, it takes place from Monday 27 July to Sunday 2 August.
After 12 months of carbon emission reducing initiatives, staff, members and volunteers at the National Park Authority say they want to be a carbon net zero operation by 2025.
Weather in the Lake District can be changeable so take a look at our list of the top 5 things to do on a rainy day in Keswick to keep all the family entertained.
His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, has been confirmed as the guest of honour at a special community event to mark the Lake District as a World Heritage Site on 26 March.
The Lake District National Park Authority has today confirmed a new organisational structure to secure its work in the Park, in response to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
Comedy fans will remember Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon sampling course after course of the Holbeck Ghyll's 2-AA-Rosette food in their BAFTA award-winning 'The Trip'.
The time has come, holidays, sunshine, freedom (!) and many of us, locals and visitors alike will be heading outdoors here in the Lake District. Because we all know that those mountains are special! I have been longing to be in those mountains, the most special thing that makes the Lake District a National Park.
A programme of flood recovery work in the Lake District National Park is celebrating its 50th bridge repair with the project running ahead of schedule.
As the UK’s biggest tree celebrations get underway north Lakes marks a massive planting operation which has seen 17,850 saplings introduced.
