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Visited Kielder today to ride the 26mile Lakeside Way trail. Whilst technically there is little challenge the route is great for riding with less experienced riders. There are some great views. If you're fit you could aim to complete the ride in 2 hours. I've put a video guide together, check it out here: http://bit.ly/eMcbPW
The parking's gone up to £4. Our punishment for not letting them sell the forests.
£4!!!
nemtbroutes when i click the garmin link "You do not have sufficient privileges to view the activity with id 78333084."
If you don't have change you can leave your £5 under the wiper blades and come back to find a valid ticket and your change though. Which is nice.
just back from a week in the Lakes with the family. Great time, great hills, scenery, pubs etc....but jeez the parking charges....
maybe we are lucky up here in Scotland and when heading to the hills it is very rare to pay to park, but totting up the tickets, and bearing in mind we have a 4 yr old, so had to use the car a fair bit from our base in Ambleside as he gets tired walking after 15 mins, we spent over £50 just on 'pay and display'. Thankfully yesterday when we went to Brockhole, a chap gave us his £7, all day ticket when he was leaving around midday....we stayed till 230 and gave the ticket to someone else 😛
Parking was still £3 when I was there.
I've now fixed the Garmin link.
Cheers
Just booked a weekend away to try this out based on your vid. If the kids start to flag do you know if you can bail out and catch the ferry back?
tinribz, don't think the ferry stops anywhere other than leaplish.its more a pleasure boat than a ferry isn't it.
the views around Kielder are incredible, that gold house on stilts has the best one IMO.
Tinribz, the South shore is the best option, it's 17 miles long and there quite a few car parks along the way which are all good bailout options. If you do the full route there is also a 4 mile short cut near Leaplish that cuts out one of the peninsulars.