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Check how busy different areas and car parks across the Lake District are
Guidance is to minimise travel. Getting outside for exercise is of course important, but please don't take any unnecessary risks.
By staying safe and following the guidance you can help reduce the pressure on our emergency services.
Check how the coronavirus rules affect the Lake District National Park
Our patrols are back and we'll be updating this page with the status of car parks everyday from 9am - 5pm.
▼ Around Windermere and Ambleside
▼ Around Keswick, Borrowdale, Buttermere, Bassenthwaite and Whinlatter
▼ Around Coniston, Hawkshead and Grizedale
▼ Around Ullswater and Glenridding
▼ Around Wasdale, Eskdale and Ennerdale
Not very busy at the moment
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
Town centre parking
£ Pay and Display
Location: ///statement.vague.mock
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///possible.snooping.region
House closed until week of 17 May 2021
Location: ///years.waddle.aquatics
Car park and grounds open from 26 March 2021
Outdoor activities and take-away food outlets reopen Monday 29 March 2021
Between Windermere and Ambleside on the A591
£ Pay and Display
🚾 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
Souvenir shop, with 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
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.
Town centre
£ Pay and Display
Location: ///indulgent.stiff.contracts
Open during Easter holidays (1 - 19 April) for public parking.
£ Pay and Display
Location: //////incensed.repaid.exulted
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets CLOSED
Access to lakeshore
Location: ///gratuity.jobs.spindles
£ Pay and Display
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
🚾 Toilets closed during the winter
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. Limited sailings start 10th April.
Location: ///headed.reflected.newly
£ Pay and Display
Farmer and Emergency Access Required 24/7 - don't obstruct lane
Location: ///broadens.unstable.says
Note there are two car parks, which are only open during museum opening times. The more westerly one may be used by the general public.
£ Pay and Display
English Heritage Bobbin Mill museum near Finsthwaite.
Museum open for pre booked ticket holders only
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stott-park-bobbin-mill/
🚾 Toilets
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 pay using the "Pay to Park" app
🚾 Toilets
Car park is 150 metres from the lake.
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 operates several car parks close to Keswick town centre, including:
Bell Close
Otley Road
Central (on Heads Road)
Rawnsley Centre (Main Street)
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Public toilets in Bell Close car park. Includes accessible toilet.
Overnight parking available (check signs), but no overnight staying in vehicles.
♻️ Otley Road car park has recycling facilities for paper & card, glass, cans and plastic bottles.
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 available.
Location: ///gilding.rarely.hairspray
Access to the Keswick / Threlkeld Old Railway Line Trail
£ Pay and Display
Location: ///eats.shining.marsh
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
£ 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
Location: ///saturate.costs.choirs
£ Pay and display - Coins only
Pay By Phone available
If Ashness Bridge car park is full, try the Surprise View car park 500 metres uphill to the south
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
🚾 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
Location: ///chugging.crunchy.juggles
Access to the Keswick / Threlkeld Old Railway Line Trail
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
At the top of Whinlatter Pass
🚾 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
£ Pay and Display
🚾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
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
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
Toilets at this location are now closed for the winter season.
An overflow car park is available most weekends in peak season
Location: ///angry.magical.banana
Location: ///bathtubs.builds.them
Location: ///prospers.meal.finishing
Brantwood gardens and café are now open to visitors 10.30am - 5pm.
Location: ///vanished.pulsing.storming
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///stirs.loud.penny
Located on Old Furness Road, a residential area 200 metres south west of the village centre
£ Pay and Display
Location: ///caravan.selects.breathing
£ Pay and Display
🚾 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
🚾Toilets
Location: ///encodes.dented.obtain
Location: ///taxed.goofy.styled
£ Pay in car park
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///atlas.stored.trainers
Location: ///adapt.frame.tugging
Location: ///flopping.chairs.rents
£ Pay in car park
Location: ///impulse.craftsmen.greeting
Location: ///station.sweetener.zooms
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///eyelashes.called.mimed
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Or pay using the "Pay to Park" app
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///thickens.habit.passion
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Or pay using the "Pay to Park" app
Location: ///croutons.doted.trim
No overnight parking
Location: ///fells.national.flopping
The new bridge is now open at Pooley Bridge, connecting the East and West sides together again.
£ Pay and Display
Location: ///sleepless.workbench.file
£ Pay and Display
Location: //////dynamics.ballots.whistling
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Please respect the locality and residents, and please park considerately
Location: ///octopus.lollipop.glades
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Or use Pay to Park app
Location: ///slang.kingpin.exclusive
Location: ///pelt.kennels.racing
Location: ///hockey.belly.bonkers
A large car park opposite the legendary Kirkstone Pass Inn. This road is a stunning drive, but can be challenging. Please watch your speed and take your time. Flooding may occur.
Location: ///trains.garden.turntable
Aira Force waterfalls is a popular destination, the waterfall walk is on land owned by the National Trust.
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Location: ///quicker.crypt.home
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
Location: ///trace.stick.collapsed
£ Pay and Display - Coins only
🚾 Toilets open 10am – 3pm, accessible toilet 24hrs
🍽 The tea room is open from 11am serving hot, & cold drinks and snacks
Location: ///under.ripen.hotel
£ Pay and 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 CLOSED during winter
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///diverts.pictures.eyeliner
Location: ///nobody.glass.surprises
Location: ///recording.crows.allergy
Muncaster Castle, gardens, cafe and other attractions are closed until February 2021 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
£ Pay and Display
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 - cash 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, 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
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///venturing.snows.cats
£ Pay and Display
Location: ///advances.eased.buns
£ Pay and Display
Location: ///burden.strutting.stealing
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///childcare.delay.richest
£ Pay and Display
Location: ///blunders.blacken.clincher
£ Pay and Display
🚾 Toilets
Location: ///nobody.desiring.twinge
Location: ///bashed.extension.apple
Location: ///report.activates.pass
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
