An innovative joint mission to establish a walking route in one of the Lake District’s most spectacular valleys is celebrating the first year of a phenomenal success story.
The John Muir Award, a leading adventure and environment scheme has this week celebrated connecting 10,000 young people with wild places across Cumbria.
There’s now only weeks to go until the £7.9 million Keswick to Threlkeld trail is fully reopened for the first time since 2015 and, following input from the local community, new branding has been agreed for the popular route.
Biography and interests of Vicky Hughes, member of the Lake District National Park Authority.
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA), the body that supports farming and food production in the UK, joined National Park rangers this week on a tour of bridges and footpaths that have been repaired as part of ‘Routes to Resilience’, a £3m flood recovery project.
Information and activity packs.
Biography and interests of Mark Kidd, member of the Lake District National Park Authority.
Top tips on having a great glamping holiday in the Lake District.
Catch up on news, walking routes, places to stay and ideas for days out in the Lake District with the National Park blog.
Photographs from the 1890s and later of Brockhole House.
Local dancers, singers, model plane pilots and even croquet players are being offered an exciting opportunity to be part of a performance that celebrates our desire to fly and the importance of Cumbrian aviation history during World War One.
With links to the Lake District National Park Hydropower Scoping Study. Our fells and high rainfall mean that we have a large number of watercourses in the National Park, and some of these may be suitable for hydropower schemes.
Social media can be an exciting, accessible place to find out new information, get inspired about things to do, places to go and people to meet. It can also be a great place for informed debate about important issues and topics. However, it can also be a place where people are quick to talk, without thinking through the impact of their actions.Our social house rules set out how we will behave on social media and what we expect in return.
With Easter beckoning and a raft of activities on offer, Brockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre on the shores of Windermere, is celebrating achieving VisitEngland endorsement in their Visitor Attraction Quality Scheme.
Windermere Draft Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan Consultation
