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This is one of our favourites. This was our 3rd visit. Always managed to get on a serviced pitch at top of site. Very clean, neat and tidy. Good playgrounds and great dog walks up into the forests. Alarmed to find lot of forest had been felled since last visit making it look bleak. Rookin House next door offers some great activities but best to book before you come. We tried archery, quad biking, go-karts and the argocat. Convenient for M6 and for Keswick with Booths supermarket a must! Facilities are some of the best we have seen with large, well equipped shower cubicles. Staff always friendly and paper orders taken. Will return.
We stayed on this site for 4 nights, it looked ok from what we saw of it, was confined to the caravan (rained non stop). Toilets were a strange setup but was kept nice and clean. There was a very good games room on site for the kids. The walk from the top of the site would have been a nice stroll in the woods, but woods have now been felled leaving it very barren. When you leave the site remember to take your barrier key back on foot (as there is no where to stop on exit of site with your car and caravan).
Site 1 of 5 on our North of England and Scotland Tour.
Access is easy off the M6 J40 and good A road to within a mile of the site. Site entrance is well sign posted and provided no access problems.
The site is set in a bowl high above the lakes and can be quite exposed, so storm straps for awnings are a must.
The site is mostly given over to large hard standing pitches (rock pegs are required) with some grass pitches in the centre, though these have limited use as the ground was quite boggy even in July. TV reception is poor but the EHU bollards have TV hook up.
There are 2 large toilet blocks and cleaning times are staggered. All the amenities were spotlessly clean at all times and coped admirably with a full site. The site has a useful games room with a few gaming machines, pool tables and a table tennis table.
Reception sold a few odds and ends but for any shop a 10 mile trip into Penrith is needed and the nearest Caravan spares shop is a 50 mile round trip.
Good dog walks on site and very friendly and helpful wardens.
Well we stayed for a week here and loved every minute, and we were on the serviced pitches which were at the better end of the site as there is only around 30 ish and you wouldn't know that the site had over 100 pitches. It was so quiet. Dog walk was fab, up our end, you can walk all the way into Matterdale woods. The dog walk outside of reception out the gate is ok, but not big. You have Rookin Hall Farm next door, which provides Archery, Quad Biking, Horse Riding, Clay Pidgeon shooting, and its just outside the entrance to the caravan site.
Toilets and showers marvellous, always clean, and plenty of room, only had to queue once for about 10 mins in the morning b4 they closed for cleaning. The other shower block closes for cleaning at a different time so always one available. The staff were all pleasant and friendly, no problems at all. Listening to the babbling brook was lovely, the dogs have had a ball.
Some statics up near our end, but only about 10 pitches and too were vacant without statics at all, and only 3 families visited the others whilst we were there, but all very quiet and peaceful. You can get some great photos from the dog walk of stunning scenery. Visited Keswick, Ullswater, all thru the little villages, had a pint in Ambleside, weather was absolutely great, only one wet day, and even that was stunning. Will defo be back to this site, and the area itself.
Just returned from our 12 night stay at the site. The site is very clean and well maintained by the wardens who are all very pleasant.
There were two toilet/shower blocks that were always very clean although along way to walk for those at the top of the site.
The dog walk is a large grass verge that runs along the entrance lane to the site, ok for morning and night time visits. At the other end of the site there is a little walk that will take you on a loop, through a gate to the edge of the forest, along a little lane, back down the main road to the front entrance of the site. About a 20 minute steady walk.
We stayed on a serviced pitch and found those pitches a little on top of each other and not really with any views. We struggled with the drainage so ended up using the wastemaster anyway. Standard pitches however seemed better laid out, most of which had great views.
There was a playroom for children and play area outside with climbing frame. Information room is located in the children's playroom, there is a little map on the wall showing locations of places to eat and there are menus in the book in there.
The site is well positioned off the A66 for trips out and not far from Penrith and the supermarkets.
We had a mouthwatering meal at The Troutbeck Inn, well worth a visit. I would stay at this site again but on a standard pitch and only for a short break or as a stop off if travelling to Scotland.
Nestling in the beautiful Eskdale Valley close to Scafell, England's highest mountain and Wastwater, this site is a children's paradise in the heart of the Lake District. The first thing that meets you on arrival is the pond, fed by a stream and usually full of children paddling and playing on tyre rafts. The playground has zip wires, climbing frames, tyre rope-swings and adventure courses.
Grass pitches (some with EHU) for tents, motorhomes, VW-sized campervans (no caravans). Refurbished toilets, showers and laundry. Peace is the watchword on the campsite - catering mainly for families and couples with silence after 10.30pm. Don't forget your marshmallows - campfires are allowed in selected areas. Nearby shop and pub. And there's an added extra: the site sits along the route of the Ravenglass and Eskdale Steam Railway line, with it's own station. Choo Choo! Find out more here
First visit to this site, & this part of the Lakes, & have to say very impressed. We were lucky to come during the heatwave & had a fantastic week. We found the site to be ok,nice drive down from the A66,but far enough not to hear any road noise, very quiet at night. Middle pitching area did seem a little cramped, but lower down we pitched by a stream & it felt more relaxed & a little more spread out.
Facilities seemed ok so no complaints. Nice view to Blencathra, but didn't seem to be too many walks direct from the site.S pent every day out & about visiting all the Lakes, a couple of cruises, plenty of walks & a morning climbing Great Gable. Buttermere has to be one of the nicest places to spend a day.
It has taken a while for us to discover the Lakes, & felt this a better site than Park Coppice at Coniston which is strangled by too many trees & not enough open space to enjoy the sun. So nice to sit out until 10 at night.
Can highly recommend a meal at the Troutbeck Inn just up the road, fantastic food ( when we were there ), if a tad pricey. As good a holiday as we have had, & we will return to this site again.
Stayed here for one night on the way home after touring Scotland. Maybe we were just tired but we weren't overly impressed. The site didn't seem to be like the picture in the book as it felt more cramped not open like the photo. The toilets and showers again seemed cramped and a bit dark also the dustbins were overflowing and the elsan point smelled. There is a one way system but this seemed a little confusing in places. The dog walk was nicely kept and adequate for mornings and nights. The pitches are quite close to the one opposite so we had a motorhome looking directly into our front window when they returned. There is no television signal unless you have an outside aerial point as you can use their tv point and no orange phone signal. It was ok for an overnight stop as its quite close to the motorway but not up to the standard of most club sites.
One thing with this caravan club site is that it is one of my favourite locations in the UK. I love the surrounding areas, such as Keswick, Pooley Bridge, Ullswater and Derwent Water.
When we arrived the wardens were very friendly as as it was our first time out with our baby girl we were asked if we would like a key to the baby changing facilities, which we happily took for the weekend.
We had a serviced pitch for the weekend and the pitch sizes are very generous with lots of space, plus the added factor of not having to walk for miles to collect water and empty the grey water made it much easier.
The toilet facilities were excellent and probably one of the cleanest sets of toilet blocks I have come across so far. The showers were also nice and baby changing facilities were clean and nice.
The only minor fault I could find with the site is that TV reception is poor unless you are on a serviced pitch in which you can plug you co-axe into the Ariel socket provided and that mobile phone reception is poor for Orange, however there are payphones at the toilet blocks which have excellent prices of 40p for 20 minutes to all calls. But none of these minor faults matter as I said previously, the location is great with a beautiful backdrop outside of your unit and in such a place like this, that is all that matters.
Great weekend here. The snow capped hills were breathtaking. On the down side, the 2 toilet blocks are very close together so if you are at the far end, past the statics it's a bit of a trek. The site description refers to 2 dog walks. The first one is nothing more than a grass verge a couple of hundred yards long alongside the entrance road. The second, although it says route to Matterdale Forest, doesn't actually take you there as the Forestry Commission has a gate and a no entry sign to stop you going in. So in practice you just go up a path to a rough bit of road which runs for about a quarter of a mile to the main road. The wardens themselves were very friendly.
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No Tents 
Caravan Pitches 
Motorhome Pitches 
Small Campervans 
No Glamping Units 
No Statics for Hire 
No Statics for Sale 
No Seasonal Pitches 
Electric Hookups 
Hardstanding Pitches 
Fully Serviced Pitches 
Families Welcome 
Not Members Only 
No Rallies 
Not Naturist Site 
Dogs Welcome 
No Dogs Allowed 
Groups Welcome 
Toilet Facilities 
Hot Showers 
Washing Up 
No Bathroom 
No Baby Changing 
Laundry On Site 
Drinking Water 
Disabled Friendly 
Chemical Disposal 
No Battery Charging 
Gas Exchange 
No Recycling Facilities 
No Kitchen Facilities 
No Freezer / Fridge 
Motorhome Point 
No Wifi Access 
Shop <5 miles 
Bar <5 miles 
Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <5 miles 
Kids Playground 
No TV Room 
Games Room 
No Evening Ents 
Fishing <5 miles 
No Wild Swimming 
No Indoor Pool 
No Outdoor Pool 
No Horse Riding 
No Cycle Hire 
Golf <5 miles 
No Tennis 
No Beach 
Watersports <5 miles 
No Boat Launch 
No Sea Views 
Not Working Farm 
No Campfires Allowed 
No Waterside Pitches 
Public Transport <5 miles
No Dog Walk 
This is one of our favourites. This was our 3rd visit. Always managed to get on a serviced pitch at top of site. Very clean, neat and tidy. Good playgrounds and great dog walks up into the forests. Alarmed to find lot of forest had been felled since last visit making it look bleak. Rookin House next door offers some great activities but best to book before you come. We tried archery, quad biking, go-karts and the argocat. Convenient for M6 and for Keswick with Booths supermarket a must! Facilities are some of the best we have seen with large, well equipped shower cubicles. Staff always friendly and paper orders taken. Will return. 
