Local Info

GRIZEDALE VISITOR CENTRE, (01229 860010) is the Forestry Commission’s leisure and amenity centre in Lakeland. The Park comprises 8,000 acres of mixed woodlands threaded through with footpaths, sculpture trails, forest tracks, bike trails and green lanes for easy walking, cycling, riding and bird watching.
At the Forest Centre, one of the starting-points for many woodland trails, there is car parking, a café, shop for maps and souvenirs, cycle shop and cycle hire tel: 01229 860369 Site click here

LOCAL CINEMA CLUB - for more information www.oxenparkcinemaclub.org.uk

                                                                                                                         
TRANSPORT, Private hire minibus 015394 36946
Grizedale wanderer bus service - Contact visitors centre above for bus time-table.               Grizedale Mountain Bike Hire click here

GO APE www.goape.co.uk

Go Ape is an award-winning high wire forest adventure course of rope bridges, Tarzan Swings and zip slides up to 40 feet up in the trees. Appealing to a wide age range, customers are fitted with a climbing harness, given instructions, and then trek from tree to tree high above the forest floor.

Pre-booking is essential for go ape.

DISCOVER THE LAKES  www.discorethelakedistrict.co.uk - Information on all to do with the lakes from eating out to activities.

LAKELAND SEGWAY  www.lakelandsegway.co.uk  - Unique guided tours on a Segway personal transporter at Graythwaite.