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Visited here over the May bank holiday weekend. Tried to book Scotgate but unfortunately could not. I was however offered a booking for their over spill site of Braithwaite.
The main thing for my wife and I is clean toilets and showers !
Having seen the standard of facilities at Scotgate I asked how Braithwaite compared, lady was honest and said not quite as good but still good and she was not wrong, the are more than adequate.
There was some small queues for showers at busy times but nothing to complain about. Water was pre set for temperature, it was hot enough and free.
The site was clean and tidy with bins emptied daily there are enough available not to be overflowing before being emptied. The site is very quiet on an evening and is very peaceful and relaxing
There is no set pitches its a matter of find a spot and site your tent. Granted the weather was poor during our visit but there was loads of space between tents so you didn't feel on top of each other.
Keswick is an easy walk for supplies and nearest pub is 5 mins to the village itself
We will definitely be re-visiting this site over the coming months.
Wont repeat other reviews. Its easy to find. Longer units be careful as you turn into the site. All you need to know is its clean, the location is superb, everything works and the staff are helpful. Keswick is nearby for anything you need.
There are beautiful walks right from the site as well as all the classic walks nearby. Shop on site has most things you might need including all the papers.
Cant think of much if anything I don't like other than tents cant book ( my sister and brothers qnd families would have come up if they could have booked)
Pitch up. Make a brew and watch the weather change over Skiddaw every 15 minutes
We have been to this campsite a few times and it's the best site we've been to. Although you can't book, so it is sometimes hard to get a pitch. There is no pitch management it's basically find a spot.
The facilities are 5 star. Underfloor heating in the toilet block, approx 16 toilets in the ladies about 6 showers, all large, with pegs to hang your clothes and a bench to sit on. Loads of sinks and mirrors, hairdryer (20p) and hand dryers. Always kept clean.
There is a pot washing room with 4 sinks with hot water. A drying room for your clothes etc. A well stocked shop, cafe. Its always a busy site with tents crammed on. Walking distance to several good pubs in Braithwaite. 5 mins in the car to Keswick. Loads of walks can be started from the campsite.
Just recently returned from a long weekend at this campsite, the site itself is very flat and quite large and not to Packed even over a bank holiday. We got a good pitch and the price was reasonable too.
Although all seemed well at first, it soon became apparent that there were a few things that need sorting on the site. For 3 out of the 4 days the showers (to which there are only 3) where cold, even after we informed someone working for the site!
The day the shower wasn't cold it was Luke warm at best! The pot washing facilities are not really adequate for the amount of people on the site.
The site is however fairly close to a very decent pub and only 30 min walk to Keswick which is ideal. I think if the underlying problems are sorted it would be a very good site but at present is let down slightly.
Ideally placed for fledgling walkers, as ourselves, and the more discerning walker. The campsite has stunning views of the surroundings and Skiddaw – a challenge for the hardiest of walkers in the winter months. We stayed for 4 nights, with the site getting busier come the weekend, because of the influx of walkers. Keswick is a 40 minute walk and is a lovely little town with all the amenities you’d expect.
The facilities of the site are the best we have encountered – the sanitary block was second to none – hot showers and very clean and modern. The shop was closed, but it was out of season. Braithwaite has a small village shop and a couple of nice pubs.
The cost of the site was very reasonable; however wi-fi was prohibitively expensive – costing more for 10 hours than you’d pay for a month at home!
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
We spent a weekend at this excellent campsite in January.
Facilities are top class. You're unlikely to find better. Prices were OK too, being winter, at about £18 per night for a camper with electricity. Shop and cafe closed with it being the quiet season.
Locally, Braithwaite has two good pubs and a little shop. Kesick is a couple of miles away. The walking from Braithwaite is excellent - the Coledale Horseshoe starts from the village and Whinlatter and Bassenthwaite are also easily accessible.
If Carlsberg made a caravan site then this would be it.
The setting is magnificent - described by another reviewer as 'imposing' and we wouldn't disagree. The site is in an ideal place for the fell walking, and we consider some of the best walks in the Lake District are to be found either on the doorstep or quite close by.
We were able to book one of the few pitches where an awning can be erected, and were greeted on arrival by two very fit young men, looking more as if they were used to lugging Herdwick sheep into the back of tractor trailers, who walked us to our pitch, unhitched the van and easily pushed it into place. What service!
The Reception staff are perfectly lovely - very friendly and helpful. The cafe is good, and the shop seems well stocked - and open quite late. The pub just up the road in Braithwaite village is only a few minutes walk away, and serves excellent food although it's very busy on a Saturday night - booking advisable.
The best bit though is the walk in, underfloor heated, showers. They are simply superb - no other sites we have been to come anywhere near.
I could happily move to this site 52 weeks of the year. I know the weather can be bad, and judging by other reviews those staying in tents can have a rough time. There may also be some issues about being too close together. However, the caravans are around the edge of the site on hard standing with hedges behind us so we are better placed to withstand the trials and tribulations of the Lake District at its worst.
Scotgate will undoubtedly become our regular Lake District holiday site - for us it's the complete package.
Spent one night at this site. It is a huge, commercial site. Facilities are very modern and spotlessly clean. On site there is a s shop and cafe, but the food is much better in the pub in Bassenthwaite village, and better value too.
Some of the site staff are not very well mannered, but they guy that sorted my pitch was a great fellow.
Location of the site is great, with fantastic walking opportunities right from the door.
I'd return to the site, but not in a hurry. There are better sites in the area and at much better value - we were charged £22 per night for two people.
First time camping in 4 years, hadn't planned on going to this site but as the one we wanted was booked up called at Scotgate and finding a suitable pitch was no problem.
The facilities on the site were far better than I had expected to find on any campsite, the owners have given the whole site great care and attention and have delivered what I would describe as 5 star.
The toilet/shower building provides constant hot water in surroundings that most top hotels would be proud of. The grounds are kept immaculate, plenty of bins which are emptied at least twice a day.
It has a well stocked shop, nice on-site eatery all set in the most pleasing of locations.
Myself and two friends had a 6 night stay at Scotgate Holiday Park. It was quite by accident that we ended up here - it had been our original intention to stay at nearby Castlerigg Hall, but that site was full so we headed here and were glad we did.
Upon arriving around 6.00pm on a Friday evening, we found the tent pitches busy, but not as much so as some of the previous reviewers have stated. We managed to pitch up on the left side of the facilities block but this was to our cost later in the week. As strong prevailing westerly winds came in (around 60mph so we were informed), our tent, and those of many others were completely destroyed in the storms, and we had to prematurely end our holiday as the tent was beyond repair, with no less than 3 alloy poles being completely sheared through ! Obviously this was our pure bad luck choosing a week of unpleasant weather - but the gist of this story is if at all possible, try to pitch up on the right hand side of the facilities, close to the line of evergreen trees in order to gain as much shelter as you can at this site, and avoid the centre of the field due to it's exposed nature. Also, there was two or three days of solid rain, and we suffered somewhat with waterlogging and mud, although to be fair, I would imagine most grassy areas in the Keswick region would have endured this too !
The Reception was welcoming and the staff helpful, as was the neighbouring shop. Both opened before 7 in the morning and were open until either 9 or 10 in the evening, which I was surprised by given how late in the season it was. The shop was well stocked with provisions, equipment, papers and also had a good off license. There was also an on site cafe, but we didn't eat there on this occasion. There is one main amenities block, there were probably 20 toilets in the gentlemans block, all spotlessly clean, stocked with paper and very modern - similar to those in MSA's, where you don't have to touch them to flush, just wave your hand a couple of inches away from a sensor. Similarly, the hand basins have sensors which operate when you put your hands under, although I took a few minutes working out how to alter the temperature ! There were 6 showers, all in very generously sized wetrooms with enough room to get changed without soaking your clothes and towel etc. The toilets and adjacent laundry and potwash room were all immaculately clean and very modern. It was reassuring to see the affable gentleman warden checking the facilities regularly during the day and cleaning where necessary. There were a couple of dustbin refuges on the site, but I thought there might be scope to add another couple, particularly at peak periods, and a few standing taps in the field would have been welcome - we didn't have a water carrier and had to wander over to the main building with the kettle which would have not really been a hardship had it not been for the weather, in fairness ! The clientele was quite mixed. As it was outwith the school holidays, we saw few families once the weekend had finished. There were a number of older couples, and also what looked like contractors who were using tents instead of 'digs' (several blokes in boiler suits disappeared in a white van every morning at 8 and reappeared around 5.30pm). What the clientele all had in common was that they were all very pleasant and friendly, and this accounted for a very hospitable atmosphere on the site, and when a number of 'tent disasters' occurred in the wind and rain, there was something of a 'Dunkirk Spirit' as everyone rallied round each other to help out those who had been more unfortunate than others !
The backdrop to the site is impressive, surrounded by imposing mountains, which on the rare occasions when the sun shone looked magnificent, and even when they were shrouded in cloud, it was still a powerful image. The local village, Braithwaite, is a picturesque little place, with a couple of decent pubs and a shop. The local bus serving Penrith, Keswick, Cockermouth and Workington called in the village every hour or so. Keswick is a half hour walk away, although we used a taxi a couple of times (which cost a reasonable fiver) as the weather was inclement. Keswick is a beautiful town with an abundance of shops, restaurants, gardens, museums and a small independent supermarket (Booths).
All in all, I would recommend this site. We will be back, but more likely earlier in the season next year; Scotgate is a lovely place, but less so when the weather is cruel !
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
This site is spot on for those who want to get back to nature and just enjoy the surroundings. We had tried to book into Scotgate (sister site) and were informed that as the site was full would we consider Braithwaite Bridges? As it was approaching 7pm we were happy to pitch anywhere, especially as our 3 children (along with the other 5 people in our party) were getting tired and hungry.
Well what can I say, having seen the overcrowded rows of tents at the main Scotgate site I was just hoping for somewhere to squeeze in our 3 tents together.I needn't have worried. The site was barely occupied and we practically had our pick of the park. We decided on a lovely spot near to the site facilities but away from other campers, as we have a 1 year old who tends to wake up at night.
The site is completely flat and will accommodate any size of tent with ease. The ground was hard but not overly with pegs going in relatively easy, no boggy areas where seen at all.
The facilities are basic, shower/toilet/kitchen block, but relatively large and were never busy. The kitchen area is small (only 2 sinks) but again we only had to 'endure' a 5 minute wait to use on one occassion.
There are no other facilities on site (may be EHUs but none appeared to be in use - some looked quite old as well). However that was the beauty of the site. The kids (and adults) had plenty of room to play bat and ball games and once the kids where in bed the adults were able to have a drink and chat without the worry of disturbing others on the park.
The setting is great, with fantastic views of Skiddow in the background, Keswick is a 30 minute walk on a flat path, although it runs down the side of the A66 for part of the way and that is busy.
Overall a great site. I'm heading back there in October, this time in a 2 man tent and will ask to pitch at Braithwaite rather than Scotgate.
Try it, if you like a lovely site with plenty of space you'll enjoy it.
This was used as an overflow site for its sister site(scotgate) which didn't bother any of us (me and the missus) even though it rained for a few hours each day it didn't bother us as it was a peaceful timeout time. The site is kept very clean but was a little bit waterlogged in places. The shower / loo / washroom block is small but kept very clean but they're a little late at taking rubbish bags but overall would go back.
We arrived at midday on a Friday and pulled in to find the main site was full and looked very crowded. They had space at their sister site Bainbridge Bridges which for us was ideal as much more space to pitch, prefer it to the main site.
Only complaint is that the price was the same for Bainbridge Bridges site even though the facilities were way below the standard of the main site, which was a good 15 minute walk away.
Scotgate itself seemed to be a very clean and well kept site but way too overcrowded with tents pitched with guy ropes crossing. None of this at the overflow site but the facilities do need upgrading to match.
The surrounding scenery is amazing and wirth a visit just for this, Braithwaite village as a couple of good pubs and a well stocked shop with lots of walks on the doorstep.
I returned to this camp site for the first time in 11 years and I really liked what I found. We stayed for 4 nights and found very pleasant staff on site and the cafe was cracking!
Full English breakfast in a box for less than a fiver and it was very tasty. I will echo what someone has already said about pitch management. It did get really crowded around our tent as the week went on which meant a struggle for space to park the car. Other parts of the site seemed much less crowded.
The facilities were very good indeed, modern and clean. The water in the shower was a decent temperature. Beware of the sinks though, there was standing water on the units around them almost every time I went in which meant that I couldn't brush my teeth or wash my face or hands properly without getting a wet t-shirt! Same in the pot wash area which other than that was great with very hot water.
My other half said that the shop was great too. There didn't appear to be a space set aside for children to play so there were lots of kids around. We didn't mind it, but it may not be everyone's cup of tea. Will definitely go back to this site.
Had yet another great weekend on this site. Not too busy on Friday lunchtime when we arrived. Went over to the main site,(Scotgate) to pay for three nights. This was jam packed with tents, motor homes and touring caravans. I personally think there are too many tents on this site. The facility block had been revamped since the last time I was on there. Really nice.
The facility block on Braithwaite Bridge site was ample enough though. Nice & clean, as usual, plenty of toilets and three free showers. What more do you need? The site did get busier on Friday night but wasn't too bad. I'll be back next year and probably the year after that and after that!
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Tent Pitches 
Caravan Pitches 
Motorhome Pitches 
Small Campervans 
No Glamping Units 
No Statics for Hire 
No Statics for Sale 
No Seasonal Pitches 
Electric Hookups 
Hardstanding Pitches 
No 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 
Baby Changing Facilities 
Laundry On Site 
Drinking Water 
Disabled Friendly 
Chemical Disposal 
No Battery Charging 
Gas Exchange 
Recycling Facilities 
No Kitchen Facilities 
No Freezer / Fridge 
Motorhome Point 
Wifi Access 
Shop On Site 
Bar <1 mile 
Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway On Site 
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 
Cycle Hire <5 miles 
No Golf 
No Tennis 
No Beach 
Watersports <5 miles 
Boat Launch / Mooring <5 miles 
No Sea Views 
Not Working Farm 
No Campfires Allowed 
Open All Year 
No Waterside Pitches 
Public Transport <1 mile
Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access 
Visited here over the May bank holiday weekend. Tried to book Scotgate but unfortunately could not. I was however offered a booking for their over spill site of Braithwaite. 
