four new things to do on holiday in the Lake District

Drive yourself wild

You might suppose the Lakes area unit regarding peace and quiet, however a replacement 4x4 journey company, Kankku, has alternative concepts, giving off-roading visits on tough piece of land within the backwaters of the Lakes, as half- and full-day sessions. you're taking the wheel armed with a rally-style list of directions and a radio link for staying in grips with a Kankku guide, then negociate rough and overgrown byways usually utilized by farm vehicles. currently the expertise has been tailored to produce the bumpiest building transfer ever – a car rental cross-country campaign from Windermere station to, among alternative hotels, the flash new S (01539 438062, brimstonehotel.co.uk, doubles from £250). Crossing Windermere by ferry, you're taking a back route to the building, effort rocky outcrops, shallow water and steep drops. The journey takes a minimum of AN hour-and-a-half, is loads of fun, and showcases some hidden bits of the Lakes. Beats a taxi any day. 
• 015394 47414, kankku.co.uk, building transfer £100 per vehicle. Two-hour visits £175 per vehicle, 5 hours £285

Rock ascent

A new specialist mountaineering company, Women Rock, run and light-emitting diode by Mandy Glanvill, qualified with a mountain climbing teacher Award, offers all kinds of mountaineering sessions for feminine climbers, with a relaxed and corroboratory approach. one amongst the foremost standard courses is Learning to steer, aimed toward ladies with some expertise. She conjointly offers critic and introductory sessions, and whereas Mandy is predicated in Keswick she'll travel everywhere the Lakes. 
• 017687 80467, womenrock.co.uk, half-day critic session from £40pp, full day Learning to steer £100pp

Hostel Revamp

YHA Ambleside formally reopened with a launch party in Gregorian calendar month when a £1.42m facelift, adding eleven nut suite rooms, a lot of loos and alternative new public areas. there is conjointly a replacement building and bar open, with oak floors and amount furnishings and views of Windermere, together with from an out of doors terrace (dorm beds from £15, rooms from £29). The YHA has twenty hostels within the Lakeland.


A new audio path for Langdale known as High Fell – The Cumbria Landscape Story, tells of the unconventional changes that befell within the Lakeland when the second warfare. guests follow a straightforward six-mile circular route from the park in Elterwater up to Chapel vertical and back whereas hearing regarding the history of the region, together with ancient earth practices, the revolution in farming and the way life has modified. transfer from cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/highfellstory.


Themed hikes

There area unit many alternative themed walks within the park, together with per week of volunteer-led target-hunting walks as a part of the Ullswater out of doors competition (21-29 September). notice these and alternative activities at lakedistrict.gov.uk/visiting/events. For young guests, Tale Trails (taletrails.co.uk ) area unit downloadable story walks with maps and a narrative: Luna the Glow Worm of the Coppermines depression (£3.95) could be a new 6km walk close to Coniston.