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Buttermere car park

Buttermere village

This page does not say whether there is space today. It says when the people before you arrived, from the National Park Authority’s own ticket data, and it prints only what a source publishes: no directory price, no guessed operator, no unverified bus time.

How you paypay and display; coins and cards (LDNPA, checked Aug 2026)
RingGo zone37311
Find it///attend.bikers.swims the Authority’s own three-word address
Half the day’s tickets boughtin the 11:00 hour
Busiest hour10:00
Busiest monthAugust
Quietest monthJanuary

When people arrive

36,143 tickets were bought at the machine between August 2024 and March 2026 , and 61 RingGo sessions were started between April 2024 and March 2026. Read together, hour by hour, they say when the people before you arrived.

The busiest hour is 10:00. About a sixth of tickets (15%) are bought before 10:00, and the running total passes half in the 11:00 hour. 5% are bought before 09:00, the 8th-largest share of the 19 car parks in the release.

00:00: 101:00: 202:00: 003:00: 204:00: 1105:00: 2606:00: 14307:00: 34108:00: 1,18909:00: 3,73910:00: 7,40111:00: 7,02812:00: 4,82213:00: 4,31014:00: 3,08715:00: 1,83116:00: 1,04817:00: 62218:00: 39119:00: 14220:00: 5121:00: 1022:00: 423:00: 300:0006:0012:0018:0023:00
Transactions by hour of the day, every month in the release combined. The dark bar is the busiest hour; the hatched one is where the running total passes half.

The same curve, in the two months that bracket the year. August 2025: 3,021 transactions, busiest hour 10:00; January 2026: 1,012 transactions, busiest hour 11:00.

Raw data: Lake District National Park Authority, FOI/2026.500. 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. Compiled 11 September 2026. A transaction is a paid ticket or a phone session, not a car and not a visitor: permit holders and anyone who did not pay are not in it, so every count is a floor.

The shape of the year

About 20,600 paid transactions a year, averaged over 2023-24 and 2024-25 — the 9th largest of the 20 car parks in the release. August runs 3.9 times January. The busiest month is August and the quietest is January.

January: 691February: 1,234March: 1,710April: 2,104May: 2,459June: 2,251July: 2,433August: 2,671September: 2,194October: 1,710November: 1,099December: 742JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Paid transactions by month, averaged over the comparable years.

Left out of every figure above: Jan-Mar 2026 is RingGo-only, a payment-channel subset. Excluded from every figure. Hawkshead May 2025, and Cow Bridge before Mar 2024, are unexplained in the source and are excluded from comparisons.

Source: Lake District National Park Authority, FOI/2026.486, paid transactions by car park and month. Received 22 July 2026.

Toilets, cafes, pubs

Toilets on site.

What this page does not say

  • Whether the car park has space right now. The data is when tickets were bought, in the past; it cannot say what is happening today.
  • A postcode. None is held for any of our parking pins, and none is invented.
  • An operator, a price, a capacity or a bus time that a published source does not state. A panel that is missing here is missing because nothing sourced could be put in it.

Every figure on this page is regenerated from the committed data and checked, number by number, against it on every push. Corrections: lee@hikes.guide. See also the parking map and the two kinds of Lake District car park.