Kendal Caravan and Motorhome Site

It’s not an easy site for manoeuvring onto pitches. The length is, as far as I know, the total length that will occupy the pitch, ie shipping length. Your best bet is probably to ring the site warden. Ask for a call back if you get the ans machine.

From memory it is a wooded site and can be miserable in bad weather. 

Can I ask the OP why he has chosen this site as it isn't at all ideal for touring the lakes. If you are in the the other Club, then the Bowness Site is ideally placed and even the Windermere site is much nearer to "the action" (whilst a simiar distance to Kendal)

It is a wooded site so can be gloriously cool in hot weather.

Very true but rain is more likely - the recent weather has been exceptional. 

As mentioned, best to speak with the staff as I believe the area known as The Glade, on the right bottom section is good for larger outfits, likewise further into the site in the 70’s. The staff normally put out cones to make sure there is adequately sized pitches available. 

CCC also have a good site just north of Kendal, but these days we always use Spittal Caravans, which is north of the centre, opposite the Queen Katherine's school.

No toilets or showers, but your van has those, and all pitches are serviced.  Very good value for money, and conveniently situated.

Like Gillway we have seen large outfits in the Glade area. Best to ring wardens.

The site has its good points and bad points. Heavily wooded as mentioned above, both good and bad, poor WiFi but good dog walking. If fit enough you could walk into Kendal more or less following the River Kent which runs past the site.

Good site for nature as well. Fine pub or two within easy walking, excellent farm shop also nearby. Sizergh NT also within walking distance.

Agree, as our next door neighbour, who has a 8m+ van has been there twice recently and, after a phone call, the warden put out a cone for him on a pitch in The Glade.

Just interested.  We usually stay at Meathop Fell, which is excellent.  Coniston is a great site, but is an absolute nightmare to get to - driving down that road is so stressful when towing there and back that it has put me off for life.

Kendal is quite a bit cheaper than Methop Fell for the dates I was looking to go, so thought I would ask the question.

We are in the Camping and Caravan Club too, so I will also have a look at that site.

We used CAMC Kendal once, a long time back, as a one night stopover, it was fully booked but there should have been 2 pitches vacant, we had booked.      However one owner  who should have left by 12 had decided to go out for the day, and at 4.30pm his van was still on the pitch, leaving only one smallish and very difficult to access pitch.

We had a much smaller 3 berth van at that time, but we could not have got on the pitch without a mover, and the van was really too long for the space.  The site was also very wooded and dingy at that time, I think it is  slightly better now, but we decided we would never return there.

We have used  Meathop several times, we like it, and it was very reasonably priced,  but it must have become  very popular as it has become much more expensive in the last 5-6 years.   We then switched to the CCC site north of Kendal, which we also like, but sometimes it was fully booked on hardstanding, hence our move to Spittal Caravans.

I agree with you about the road to  Coniston, one our only visit there we had our van damaged by the mirror on a MH scraping along the side of it, despite the fact we had pulled over to allow them to space to carry on.   They must have known their mirror was scraping the van, but never said anything.    So Coniston was also taken off our list!