Lake District car parks
One page for each of the 20 car parks the National Park Authority disclosed ticket data for: when the people before you arrived, what it costs, and how to get there. None of them says whether there is space today.
No signal when you get there? RoutePark keeps the places to park for a walk on your phone, for any of our walks or a GPX of your own: choose it at home, keep it, and it opens offline.
Where they are
Twenty car parks, each one a page. Pick the one you are heading for. Parking somewhere else? The Lake District parking map has all 968 places we know of to leave a car for a walk, from National Trust car parks to a gap in a wall on a single-track road.
Compare all twenty
| Car park | Paid transactions a year | Hour in which half the tickets were bought | Busiest month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beech Hill Windermere east shore | 4,710 | 13:00 | August |
| Broadgate Meadow Grasmere | 27,500 | 11:00 | August |
| Brockhole Windermere | 46,100 | 12:00 | August |
| Brown Howe Coniston Water west shore | 7,890 | 11:00 | August |
| Buttermere | 20,600 | 11:00 | August |
| Coniston Boating Centre Coniston | 35,300 | 12:00 | August |
| Coniston Old Station Coniston | 7,520 | 10:00 | August |
| Cow Bridge Hartsop, Brothers Water | 4,670 | 10:00 | August |
| Glenridding Ullswater | 52,200 | 11:00 | August |
| Hammarbank Windermere | 4,800 | 13:00 | August |
| Hawkshead | 75,700 | 13:00 | August |
| High Dam Finsthwaite | 6,390 | 12:00 | August |
| Monk Coniston Coniston Water, north end | 11,200 | 12:00 | August |
| New Dungeon Ghyll Great Langdale | 9,470 | 10:00 | August |
| Pooley Bridge (Eusemere) Ullswater | 26,800 | 12:00 | August |
| Ravenglass | 7,400 | 12:00 | August |
| Ruskin Avenue Coniston | 34,200 | 12:00 | August |
| Station Coppice Thirlmere | 3,980 | 12:00 | August |
| Threlkeld Old Station Threlkeld | 608 | — no hourly data | September |
| Waterhead Ambleside | 62,900 | 13:00 | August |
Source: Lake District National Park Authority, FOI/2026.486, paid transactions by car park and month. Raw data: Lake District National Park Authority, FOI/2026.500. Contains public sector information provided by the Lake District National Park Authority and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The aggregation by hour and by month is ours, not the Authority’s: it declined to produce an hour-of-day report and disclosed the transactions instead. The hourly figures are free to download as open data. Compiled 14 September 2026.
How to read these pages
A transaction is a paid ticket or a phone session. It is not a car, not a visitor, and not a space: permit holders and anyone who did not pay are invisible to it, and one stay can buy more than one ticket, so it is not a count of cars or people in either direction. The pages say when tickets were bought, never how many spaces were left. See also the parking map and the two kinds of Lake District car park, and how early you need to be, which compares all nineteen hour by hour.