Aira Force and Ullswater
Nature Reserves, Country Parks & Beaches · Penrith, Cumbria & the Lake District
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What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Pay-and-display car park. Non-members pay £7 for 2 hours, £8.50 for 4 hours or £10 all day; National Trust members park free after registering. Designated accessible bays and a drop-off point by the Welcome Building.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Aira Force is a 65-foot waterfall in an 18th-century pleasure ground on the National Trust's Gowbarrow Park estate, on the edge of Ullswater in the Lake District. Families can follow woodland trails through glades and past the falls, with a path route running along the lakeshore towards Glencoyne. The site has a visitor welcome building, a tea room serving snacks and ice cream with indoor and outdoor seating, and a small toilet block that includes an accessible toilet. Paths are steep and uneven in places and the waterfall itself is not reachable by wheelchair or pushchair, so younger children may need carrying on some sections. Dogs are welcome on leads. Visitors can also reach the valley by boat on Ullswater.
Tea room hours shift with the season. Check the venue page before visiting.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
Wellies
Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
Wet wipes- Rash vestSun cream washes off; this does not.
Car boot linerMuddy wellies and a clean boot can coexist.
Portable phone charger
Safety pinsStraps break.
Spare batteries
Rucksack
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