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Your guide to the best Lakeland fun for children See also our gallery and exhibition listings, our theatre and cinema page, our music concerts and festivals page, and our monthly what's on guide. There are so many things for children in the Lake District that it seems almost impossible for them not to have a good time! But here's our selection of the things that may appeal most to the younger members of the family! Click on the links to go down the page and find the relevant section.
There are three steam trains in or near the Lakes: Lakeside and Haverthwaite, the Ravenglass and Eskdale, and the South Tynedale. There are "steamers" on Windermere and Ullswater, and real steam-powered boats on Coniston, and at the Windermere Steamboat Museum. There are solar powered passenger boats on Coniston and traditional passenger launches on Derwentwater, Windermere and Coniston. You can hire rowing boats on Grasmere, Coniston and Windermere. Some more favourite children's places in the Lakes - that's to say, the ones that aren't listed above or below - include: Sellafield Discovery Centre (that's at the infamous nuclear power station on the Cumbrian Coast which used to be called Windscale. I assume they changed the name to distance it from Windscale's appalling safety record). The South Lakeland Wildlife Park The Lakeland Sheep and Wool Visitors Centre The Ospreys at Whinlatter Forest Park Go Ape, a high wire forest adventure in Grizedale Forest "Active Woods" activities in Whinlatter and Grizedale Forest Parks The World of Beatrix Potter Exhibition, Bowness Beatrix Potter's House House, near Hawkshead |
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