A weekend in the Lake District with kids
Stay in Windermere and Bowness. Day 1: Abbot Hall Playground and Abbot Hall Art Gallery; day 2: Borrans Park and Dove Cottage.
Make it yoursstart from your town, pick the month, swap any stop
Day 1 · the Lake District
- Lunch
- Rifleman's Arms
- If it rains
- Brantwood near Coniston (museum)
Night 1 · Windermere and Bowness
Day 2 · the Lake District
- Lunch
- Britannia Inn
- If it rains
- Hawkshead Grammar School
How this plan is made
No one picks these by hand and no one pays to be in them. The planner's rules take the places and roads the Lake District's pages rank, for a family, any month: one town to stay in, and each day its best stop with the best ones close to it, two a day, with lunch nearby and an indoor stop if it rains. Distances are as the crow flies, so the road is longer. Check opening times on each place's page before you go. How the ranking works.
Questions
Where should I stay for a weekend with kids in the Lake District?
Windermere and Bowness. It is the town with the best stops within 15 km for this trip, so you don't pack up every morning. Windermere and Bowness: train stations: Station Entrance, Windermere Rail Station; 9 bus stops within 400 m; boats from Windermere Steam Boat Museum Ferry Terminal.
What should I do first?
Day 1 is Abbot Hall Playground and Abbot Hall Art Gallery: the best stop for this trip, then the best ones within 5 km of it.
Who picked these places?
Nobody. The same rules make every plan from the places and roads the site ranks with one open formula, and no place pays to be in a plan.