Car parks for walks

The popular valley car parks fill early on summer weekends and bank holidays, often before 9am. Charges change, so each entry says who runs it and when we last checked.

• Aira Force car park

  Glenridding, National Trust

• Birdoswald Roman Fort car park

  Brampton, English Heritage, CA8 7DD

• Bitts Park car park, Carlisle

  Carlisle

• Braithwaite Fold car park, Bowness

  Bowness-on-Windermere, Westmorland and Furness Council (OpenStreetMap still lists the former South Lakeland District Council)

• Broad Street car park, Windermere

  Windermere, Westmorland and Furness Council

• Broadgate Meadow car park, Grasmere

  Grasmere, Westmorland and Furness Council

• Buttermere village car park (National Trust)

  Buttermere, National Trust

• Car park by St Peter's Church, Martindale

  Pooley Bridge, CA10 2NF

• Car park by the school, Bowness-on-Solway

  Carlisle

• Car park opposite Devil's Bridge, Kirkby Lonsdale

  Kirkby Lonsdale

• Cartmel Racecourse car park

  Cartmel, Holker Estates and Cartmel Steeplechases, LA11 6QB

• Central car park, Keswick

  Keswick, Cumberland Council (OpenStreetMap still lists the former Allerdale Borough Council)

• Christian Head car park, Kirkby Stephen

  Kirkby Stephen, Kirkby Stephen Town Council

• Crosthwaite Road car park, Keswick

  Keswick

• Dodd Wood car park (Old Sawmill)

  Keswick, Forestry England, CA12 4QE

• Dufton car park

  Appleby-in-Westmorland, CA16 6DE

• Dunmallard car park, Pooley Bridge

  Pooley Bridge, Lake District National Park Authority

• Elterwater car park

  Langdale, National Trust, LA22 9HP

• Gatesgarth Farm car park

  Buttermere, Gatesgarth Farm (private)

• Glenridding (Beckside) car park

  Glenridding, Lake District National Park Authority (run by Park with Ease on its behalf, per OpenStreetMap)

• Grange Methodist Chapel car park

  Borrowdale

• Grizedale Forest visitor centre car park

  Hawkshead, Forestry England, LA22 0QJ

• Gummers How car park

  Bowness-on-Windermere, Forestry England

• Gutherscale car park

  Keswick

• Honister Slate Mine car park

  Borrowdale, Honister Slate Mine, CA12 5XN

• Joss Lane car park, Sedbergh

  Sedbergh, Sedbergh Parish Council

• Lake Head car park, Wasdale Head

  Wasdale, National Trust

• Lake Road car park, Ambleside

  Ambleside, Westmorland and Furness Council (formerly South Lakeland District Council)

• Lakeside car park (Theatre by the Lake), Keswick

  Keswick, Cumberland Council (formerly Allerdale Borough Council), CA12 5DJ

• Latrigg car park, Gale Road

  Keswick

• Library Road car park, Kendal

  Kendal, Westmorland and Furness Council (formerly South Lakeland District Council)

• Low Gelt Bridge car park

  Brampton

• Maggie's Bridge car park, Loweswater

  Buttermere, National Trust, CA13 0RU

• Mardale Head car park, Haweswater

  Haweswater, CA10 2RP

• Miller Bridge car park, Ambleside

  Ambleside, Westmorland and Furness Council

• Old Dungeon Ghyll car park, Great Langdale

  Langdale, National Trust, LA22 9JU

• Patterdale Hotel car park

  Glenridding, Patterdale Hotel, CA11 0NN

• Rannerdale car park, Crummock Water

  Buttermere, National Trust

• Ravenglass station car park

  Ravenglass, CA18 1SN

• Red Bank Road car park, Grasmere

  Grasmere, Westmorland and Furness Council

• Ruskin Avenue car park, Coniston

  Coniston, Lake District National Park Authority

• Rydal Pelter Bridge car park

  Ambleside, Lake District National Park Authority, LA22 9LW

• Seafront car park, Grange-over-Sands

  Grange-over-Sands, Westmorland and Furness Council

• Seatoller car park

  Borrowdale, National Trust

• Smardale car park (Cumbria Wildlife Trust)

  Kirkby Stephen, Smardale & Waitby Nature Reserves (Cumbria Wildlife Trust)

• Stickle Ghyll car park, Great Langdale

  Langdale, National Trust

• Stock Lane car and coach park, Grasmere

  Grasmere, Lake District National Park Authority

• Talkin Tarn car park

  Brampton, Cumberland Council, CA8 1HN

• Tarn Hows car park

  Coniston, National Trust

• The Gill car park, Ulverston

  Ulverston, LA12 7BN

• Whicham church car park (St Mary's)

  Ravenglass