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05/1/2024 at 1:18pm
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Quote: Originally posted by nesty on 05/1/2024
Thanks for the replies, if I do stay at Windermere, I'd be using the electric bike for getting around Windermere.
I acknowledge the Lakes are highly popular and that most sites going to be rammed no matter what time between April and September!
What makes you think it will be busy? .... only 18.5 million residents and visitors in a 915 sq mile area of National Park, probably 90% of which is wild terrain! ... so most are crammed into a handful of towns! Visit Windermere/Bowness (they sprawl into each other) and you'll be shoulder to shoulder and nose to nose, go out on the fells and you may never see another soul all day (that's where I prefer! )! Have stayed in Bowness (in rented houses) lots of times in the past, but find it all too busy/frantic these days, really is a 'tourist' town with much of the souvenir tat that attracts, much prefer Coniston which still has a semblance of a honest working town about it with a nod towards tourism - much calmer atmosphere that's in keeping with the wider region.
Have plenty of charge in your E bike for the main road though Bowness into Windermere, it's steep and long! ... and good brakes for the reverse trip! It's around 1.5 miles of all hill from lakeside to W rail station and it climbs around 400ft, about 1:16 (6%) gradient on average but steeper in places! - I've walked a lot of it, and it sorts the fit from the others! 
Probably wise to forget any notion of driving and parking in Windermere/Bowness, it'll be packed and a camper is just that little bit more demanding on space than a car! It's a frustrating and annoying test at busy times! - I'm a Londoner and well used to heavy traffic and no parking!
It's a fantastically beautiful region, with a lot of ancient history and culture, worth seeking out some of that and avoiding much of the modern tourist stuff IMHO.
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