Safer Lakes Officers patrol the National Park 24/7. We update this page everyday from 9am - 5pm. Look out for our volunteers too, helping visitors in busy places to stay safe and enjoy their day.
We use links to What3Words maps to show you the exact location of each car park, they look like this: ///possible.snooping.region
▼ Around Windermere and Ambleside
▼ Around Keswick, Borrowdale, Buttermere, Bassenthwaite and Whinlatter
▼ Around Coniston, Hawkshead and Grizedale
▼ Around Ullswater, Glenridding and Haweswater
▼ Around Wasdale, Eskdale and Ennerdale
Town centre parking
£ Pay and Display
Location: ///gentlemen.declares.indeed
Town centre parking
£ Pay and Display
Location: ///chicken.steady.bombard
500 metres south of the town centre
£ Pay and Display
⚡️ EV Charging (CCS and Type 2 - tethered cables - charges apply)
Location: ///romantics.warrior.incorrect
300 metres SW of town centre
£ Pay and Display
Location: ///nicer.cobbles.cello
Town centre parking
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///breezy.inert.tooth
Generally open to the public during University holidays only
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk
Location: ///statement.vague.mock
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///possible.snooping.region
There are a few small public parking areas and lay-bys in and around Troutbeck. Please park safely and considerately.
Enjoy a day on the shore of Windermere with outdoor activities, outdoor dining, and boat hire.
Between Windermere and Ambleside on the A591
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk
🚾 Toilets
Electric vehicle charging
One of The Lake District's most visited sites
Children's adventure playground, beautiful gardens, lakeshore, magnificent views
The Gaddum Restaurant fine dining
Café and take away food
Shop showcasing artisan and local products
Information centre
Exhibitions of local culture, landscape and natural history
Activities including boat hire, archery, laser clay shooting: pre-book online at
www.brockhole.co.uk
Location: ///bleak.dries.cooked
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///thrashing.marine.person
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Sometimes referred to as Quarry Rigg Car Park
Location: ///suddenly.informed.defensive
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///shorthand.push.vague
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///rebounder.supply.riding
Windermere town parking. If Broad Street is busy try Windermere School which opens for public parking during the school holidays.
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///indulgent.stiff.contracts
£ Cashless payment using Ring Go at http://ringgo.co.uk
Location: ///incensed.repaid.exulted
£ Pay and Display
Toilets CLOSED
Access to lakeshore
Location: ///gratuity.jobs.spindles
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
Long stay and weekly parking available
Ideally located for short walks to:
Queen Adelaid's Hill viewpoint, Millerground lakeshore & woodlands
Orrest Head viewpoint above Windermere town
Location: ///airstrip.skews.lyrics
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
🚾 Toilets
Picnic area, lake viewpoint, access to lakeshore
Location: ///ultra.bloom.warms
At 160 metres above Windermere, this is the closest parking for an ascent of Gummer's How (viewpoint at the SE tip of the lake).
Location: ///crystal.barefoot.arranges
Location: ///butchers.televise.vocal
300 spaces available 7 days a week.
£ Pay and display.
Park here for Windermere Lake Cruises Lakeside pier.
Location: ///headed.reflected.newly
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
Farmer and Emergency Access Required 24/7 - don't obstruct lane
Location: ///broadens.unstable.says
NB there are two car parks, which are only open during Bobbin Mill Museum opening times. The more westerly one may be used by the general public.
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets open during museum opening times only
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stott-park-bobbin-mill/
Location: ///firm.overused.cost
Lakeshore parking
Access is along a dead-end single track road that has few passing places
Location: ///populate.dice.questions
£ Pay and Display - Coins only, or using the "Pay to Park" app
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///snacking.dizziness.buzzards
Location: ///solutions.note.trifle
£ Pay and Display
This car park also serves the Ferry Nab boat launching facility
On busy days, the car park may be closed to allow for boat launches to take place.
Location: ///tasteful.belief.deeply
£ Pay and Display
This car park is 800 metres south of Bowness town centre, and 500 metres from the Windermere Ferry
Location: ///oatmeal.punctuate.months
Lakeshore parking close to the ferry landing on the western shore
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Or you can pay using the Pay to Park app
Location: ///nozzles.bitter.biked
Lakeshore parking close to the ferry landing on the western shore
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Or you can pay using the Pay to Park app
Location: ///bother.mermaids.nearly
Location: ///lend.piglets.stuck
Allerdale Borough Council car parks
£ Pay and Display
These are within 200 metres of Keswick town centre:
Bell Close
Otley Road
Central (on Heads Road)
Rawnsley Centre (Main Street) CLOSED until and including 6 August 2021
Pencil Museum (Carding Mill Lane) CLOSED until and including 6 August 2021
🚾 Public toilets in Bell Close car park. Includes accessible toilet
Location: ///unfocused.pastime.sharpens
Location: ///sober.juicy.relief
Location: ///shots.lizards.frown
You can buy fishing and boating permits for Bassenthwaite Lake online
Location: ///available.altering.outdoors
£ Pay in car park
🚾 Toilets
🍴 Café - The Old Sawmill Tearoom
Location: ///feathers.outwit.detergent
On busy days, most parking areas between Great Wood and Kettlewell fill up quickly. For summer 2021 there is a prime location, lakeshore parking field near Barrow Bay, only 300 metres south of Ashness Jetty: this often has space when other car parks are full. Please do not park obstructively on the roadside.
£ Pay and display - Coins only
Pay By Phone available
Location: ///tastings.tapers.gearing
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Pay By Phone available
Location: ///towel.carbon.fatigued
£5 all day
Temporary car park for Summer 2021
Location: ///search.brass.shatters
£ Pay and display - Coins only
If Ashness Bridge car park is full, try the Surprise View car park 500 metres further up the road
Location: ///revisits.scary.objective
£ Pay and display - Coins only
Location: ///prawn.care.stirs
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///slogged.informer.chilled
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///cushy.soulful.nests
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Location: ///digress.lads.purses
£ Pay and Display - coins and cards.
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
🚾 Toilets
Buttermere becomes congested at peak times. Please only park in the designated car parks. Please don't cause highway obstructions by parking badly on roadsides and verges in the valley.
Location: ///attend.bikers.swims
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Fishing and boating permits can be bought from this car park machine
Buttermere becomes congested at peak times. Please only park in the designated car parks. Please don't cause highway obstructions by parking badly on roadsides and verges in the valley.
Location: ///wolves.towers.blurts
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Buttermere becomes congested at peak times. Please only park in the designated car parks. Please don't cause highway obstructions by parking badly on roadsides and verges in the valley.
Location: ///vivid.mealtime.broad
Watendlath is three miles from Derwentwater along a steep and winding single track road.
🚾Toilets (not open all year round)
£ Pay and display - Coins only
Location: ///fitter.custard.brilliant
£ Donation
Location: ///chugging.crunchy.juggles
Access to the Keswick / Threlkeld Old Railway Line Trail
£ Donation
Location: ///landmark.dolls.avoiding
Location: ///alcove.socialite.toffee
£3 donation (cash)
Open Saturdays, Sundays and School Holidays only
No overnight parking / sleeping in vehicles
Location: ///allergy.pats.fish
🚾 Toilets
£ Pay in the car park
🍴 Cafe
Cyclewise Bike Shop
Location: ///denote.motion.proposals
£ Pay in the car park
This car park is 300 metres from the main Whinlatter Visitor Centre facilities
Location: ///danger.lines.community
Location: ///examples.crowds.promoting
Location: ///risk.careful.recruiter
#parkNsail is a great way to access fells, attractions and villages around Derwentwater to the south of Keswick, including Cat Bells. Leave your vehicle in Keswick at the Rugby Club Car Park for only £4, and get 15% off tickets for Keswick Launch and sail to your destination across Derwentwater.
Location: ///saturate.costs.choirs
Temporary car park. Not open every day.
Location: ///besotted.climate.embers
£
Location: ///verb.sunflower.thirsty
Location: ///dating.firework.decisions
Location: ///give.foremost.octagonal
These car parks tend to fill-up less quickly than town centre car parks, but they're only 5 - 10 minutes' walk from the town centre.
Five hundred metres south of Keswick town centre. Adjacent to The Theatre By The Lake and boat landing stages.
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///alienated.ranked.they
Adjacent car parks operated by:
Fitz Park Trust (£ Pay and Display)
Keswick Football Club (£ donation)
600 metres walk from the town centre (via Fitz Park and surfaced riverbank path)
Location: ///user.overlaid.departure
250 spaces
£4 all day (Summer 2021) Pay and display
#parkNsail is a great way to access fells, attractions and villages around Derwentwater to the south of Keswick, including Cat Bells. Leave your vehicle in Keswick at the Rugby Club Car Park for only £4, and get 15% off tickets for Keswick Launch and sail to your destination across Derwentwater.
Location: ///gilding.rarely.hairspray
Access to the Keswick / Threlkeld Old Railway Line Trail
£ Pay and Display
NB there are two car parks with different operators - one is Allerdale Borough Council's, the other is owned by The Keswick Country House Hotel: use the correct ticket machine for the area you're parking in.
Location: ///eats.shining.marsh
Cashless payment only using RingGo http://ringgo.co.uk/
Location: ///cooked.videos.beaker
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
🚾 Toilets
This is the first car park on entry to the village from the south. If it's full, try the Broadgate Meadows car park - two minutes' away.
Location: ///spite.zaps.camera
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
When Grasmere village is very busy, this car park is the one that's most likely to have space.
Location: ///sprouting.inventors.shielding
£ Pay and Display
Location: ///recently.cubes.heightens
£ Pay in car park.
🚾 Toilets are beside the lower car park, on the other side of the main road (100 metres)
Location: ///grandest.plans.worker
£ Pay in car park.
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///trips.limiting.handover
Roadside parking in lay-by
Location: ///acclaimed.teaspoons.rare
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
This small car park is often very busy. Alternative public parking nearby:
(i) White Moss Common (1.5Km north west along A491)
(ii) Grasmere village (3Km north west along the A591)
(iii) Ambleside Cricket Club car park is sometimes open to the public (700 metres south on the A591 towards Ambleside).
Location: ///optimists.comfort.blushes
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
🚾 Toilets
An overflow car park is available most weekends in peak season
Location: ///angry.magical.banana
Location: ///bathtubs.builds.them
Location: ///prospers.meal.finishing
Location: ///vanished.pulsing.storming
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///stirs.loud.penny
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
Located on Old Furness Road, a residential area 200 metres south west of the village centre
Location: ///caravan.selects.breathing
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
🚾 Toilets
🍴 Bluebird Cafe
Rental service for motor and rowing boats, canoes, kayaks and paddleboards
More info and to pre-book www.conistonboatingcentre.co.uk
Location: ///pushed.meanders.really
£ Pay and Display. £6 per day. Payment via cash, card or phone.
Vehicle entrance is on Coppermines Lane behind the Ruskin / Bluebird Museum – Postcode LA21 8HL. Turn off the A593 at the Black Bull Inn. For information visit: https://www.coppermines.co.uk/covid-19-update/coniston-central-car-park/
Location: ///rosier.glance.cautious
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
🚾Toilets
Location: ///encodes.dented.obtain
£ Pay in car park
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///atlas.stored.trainers
£ Pay and display
Location: ///adapt.frame.tugging
Location: ///flopping.chairs.rents
£ Pay in car park
Location: ///impulse.craftsmen.greeting
Location: ///station.sweetener.zooms
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///eyelashes.called.mimed
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Or pay using the "Pay to Park" app
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///thickens.habit.passion
The road to the small car park at Hodge Close is single track, with few passing places. Avoid congestion by parking at Shepherds Bridge rather than Hodge Close.
No overnight parking
Location: ///fells.national.flopping
Location: ///taxed.goofy.styled
Location: ///icebergs.shock.blast
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Or pay using the "Pay to Park" app
On A593 2 miles north of Coniston. Handy for Tarn Hows, which is 600metres to the east up a path. Also close to Holme Fell.
Location: ///croutons.doted.trim
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
Location: ///sleepless.workbench.file
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
Location: //////dynamics.ballots.whistling
£ Pay and Display
Location: ///episode.timed.graphic
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Or use Pay to Park app
Location: ///slang.kingpin.exclusive
Location: ///pelt.kennels.racing
£ - cash only
Open most days, but might be closed to the public on cricket match or other sports and local community days.
Location: ///lunching.reports.sailors
£ Pay & display - coins only
Location: ///stop.vans.duty
A large car park opposite the legendary Kirkstone Pass Inn
Location: ///trains.garden.turntable
Aira Force waterfalls, on land owned by the National Trust. The Falls are within a kilometre's walk of all three listed car parks, which all fill-up at peak times on busy days. If Aira Force car park below the Falls is full, try Park Brow or High Cascades (both a short drive up the hill).
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Location: ///quicker.crypt.home
£ Pay & Display - Coins only
Location: ///trace.stick.collapsed
£ Pay & Display - Coins only
🚾 Toilets open 10am – 3pm, accessible toilet 24hrs
🍽 Cafe
Location: ///under.ripen.hotel
The road to Howtown and beyond is a dead-end, and narrow in places. Public parking is limited to The Hause, and several small laybys.
There are no alternative routes into or out of this area for emergency and large service vehicles.
Don't leave your vehicle in a position where it obstructs the highway.
Location: ///decking.wheels.closet
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///octopus.lollipop.glades
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///mint.baker.business
On busy days the parking area at Mardale Head fills-up: please don't obstruct the road by parking inappropriately.
Location: ///hockey.belly.bonkers
Location: ///never.unite.landlady
£ Pay & Display - Coins only
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///diplomas.estuaries.stapled
Location: ///tags.hence.overheat
The final 4Km of road to Bowness Knott car park is narrow and bendy, with few passing places, making vehicle travel difficult at busy times.
No unauthorised vehicles allowed in the valley beyond the car park ⛔️
Location: ///feathers.strikers.focus
If this car park is full, please try Bowness Knott car park.
Location: ///fishnet.tweezers.costs
🚾 Toilets
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///diverts.pictures.eyeliner
Location: ///recording.crows.allergy
https://www.muncaster.co.uk/
The car park is outside the grounds, and is free for Muncaster Ticket Holders.
People parking but not entering the Castle and Gardens are requested to make a cash donation of £5 per car.
Location: ///twitchy.sunshine.reflected
Location: ///nobody.glass.surprises
Location: ///march.doubts.much
£ Pay & display
Location: ///gurgling.race.blazed
£ Pay and Display
Cashless payment using Ring Go available at http://ringgo.co.uk/
Location: ///unafraid.tailwind.honestly
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
The National Trust's arrangements permitting overnight occupancy of campervans are currently suspended.
Hence, overnight occupancy of vehicles is currently prohibited at this location.
Location: ///verb.many.moved
£ Pay and Display
Please respect the footpath diversion: When leaving (or returning to) the car park to access Mickleden, Raven Crag or Dungeon Ghyll, please use the permissive path between the hotel and Middle Fell Farm. Avoid the rear of the hotel. Please follow the signs / maps on site.
Location: ///testy.flagged.hurry
£ Pay and Display - coins only
Location: ///otherwise.mole.lions
£ Pay in car park
Location: ///evening.valued.cracker
£ Pay and Display
If you don't find space at this popular car park or in the village, try Silverthwaite car park (1.5 kilometres to the south east, towards Skelwith Bridge and Ambleside)
Location: ///hiding.lived.reverted
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///magically.whizzed.panel
£ Pay and Display - coins only
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///venturing.snows.cats
£ Pay and Display - coins only
Location: ///advances.eased.buns
£ Pay and Display - coins only
Location: ///burden.strutting.stealing
£ Pay and Display - coins only
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///childcare.delay.richest
£ Pay and Display - coins only
Location: ///blunders.blacken.clincher
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///nobody.desiring.twinge
Location: ///oppose.prevents.curly
A medium sized car park that is great for walks on Scout Scar and the surrounding countryside.
Please drive carefully as the surface is rough in places.
Overnight stays are not permitted.
Location: ///inch.probe.flames
A medium sized car park that is great for walks on Scout Scar and the surrounding countryside.
Please drive carefully as the surface is rough in places.
Overnight stays are not permitted.
Location: ///river.daisy.shots
