Overview

• Up to twenty unauthorized camps appear around Ullswater and Glencoyne Bay each weekend, leaving abandoned tents, litter and human waste along the shoreline.
• National Trust rangers report that clearing discarded gear and waste is diverting significant time away from vital nature conservation work.
• Residents and rangers have documented scorched grass from disposable barbecues, living trees felled for firewood and disturbances to local wildlife.
• Cumbria Police partner with the Lake District National Park Authority to enforce camping rules and have issued £100 fines to those breaching park regulations.
• The Lake District National Park Authority’s 'Lake District Kind' campaign encourages respectful visitor behaviour to ease rising tensions with local communities.