Lake District Visitors - Travel and Tourist Information

Travelling to the Lake District is very easy. No matter which direction your heading from theres plenty of diffrent modes of transport you can use. UK based visitors travelling by car from the North, get onto the M6 Motorway and head for junction 38 Penrith, this will take you into the North Lakes.

Towns such as Keswick, Cockermouth, Egremont and Maryport and junction 36 Kendal / South Lakes, for people going to the South Lakes, towns such as Windermere, Bowness, Ambleside, Grasmere and Coniston, junction 36 is also used for traffic heading to Barrow in Furness a peninsula on the south western corner of Cumbria.

Travelling by train best stop is Oxenholme station on the edge of Kendal a famous market town on the edge of the Lake District National Park, the station is on the west coast mainline within easy reach of the main London and Scotland stations and has connecting trains to Windermere, there is also a straight through train from Windermere to Manchester Airport.

Coach travellers need not worry about the route, just relax sit back, you will know when you have arrived in the Lake District the scenery will tell you, the main coach tour operators run to many areas a few major stops are Bowness on Windermere, Keswick, theres even a tour running to the Kendal shoe store at K Village on the banks of the River Kent.

Bus travellers can get here from any part of the country, theres bus depots in most towns and city's throughout the UK, some major companies actually run long haul bus routes from Scotland to London visiting major towns and areas on route to their destination.

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