Great stay! We stayed extra nights 😀
We live in a remote area and knew it would be busy in the Lakes as we had inadvertently booked in school holidays. What surprised us though was how friendly everyone was, both on the site and off. The wardens put on a Halloween special for the children and were very helpful.
We booked for 5 nights and arrived in rain. Many of the pitches in the area we wanted to stay (Green A) looked rather wet so we picked a site that was part gravelled, we did need our ramps. This part of the site closed at the end of our stay so I presume that it is known as a wetter part and therefore not used in winter. There are however many other pitches that we could have chosen that were dry and fully gravelled. This is a forested site so you should be ready for noisy nights if it rains, as the trees may drip on skylights. That said, we loved it and decided to stay an extra 2 nights.
We were amazed at the birdlife, Great Spottted woodpeckers, Marsh Tit and Nuthatches were all around the site. We only went offsite once as there was plenty to do in the area. We had two days hillwalking, walking from the site. We walked down to Torver Pier (15 mins) and picked up the Coniston boat. We went to Torver Village and had coffee and cake in the deli. We walked to The Ship Inn (15 mins but needed our wellies as muddy) where we had some great meals (dog friendly) and to Coniston (1 route via the Ship Inn and 1 route alongside the lake - both muddy) where we ate at the Yewdale (dog friendly) and the Bluebird Cafe.
As we were coming from the North we did not follow the instructions to approach from the south and had no issues in our Motorhome. In fact after driving the South route, we thought this was worse!
Thoroughly enjoyed it!
