Orthwaite Pop-up Campsite

Liked: Loads of space, views were amazing and toilets clean. The owners of the campsite even came round to sell camp fires which was really handy! The location was great too, really close to lots of beautiful walks. Will absolutely be coming back.

Disliked: No running drinking water, but not a huge issue as we brought our own.

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Liked: Very peaceful campsite, clean and lots of space. Owners were lovely, friendly and happy to help. Provided a fire pit and logs so we could have a campfire to keep warm!

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Liked: Lots of space and clean toilets, friendly owners.

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Liked: Amazing site to start the 2025 season off! Pretty standard facilities in regards to portaloo and non drinkable water but it’s clearly stated when booking so you can’t complain.
The owners of the land were amazing, visible throughout the day maintain toilets, emptying bins and just making sure all guests were accommodated for.
Site was a mix of families, couples and groups but plenty of space to have your own pitch without intruding anyone else vice versa.
The views of the lake are amazing with views of Skidaw behind you, as stated in other reviews you can’t use the lake! Cockermouth has a lake about 20 mins away if you’re desperate to do some water sports etc.
The site itself is off the beaten track loads of country lanes once off the M6, but we throughly enjoyed taking in the nature with no mobile signal for a couple days. We will most definitely be back in the near future. Thanks guys!

Disliked: Nowt!

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Liked: Fantastic, quiet, peaceful campsite in a beautiful location. We are always on the hunt for wild camp spots and this hit the brief. It’s not overloaded with caravans, meaning you can get that nice peaceful get away and a dose of nature. The owner is lovely and comes round offering fire pits and logs which is a great touch! We’ll be back and recommending!

Disliked: Only thing that would make this spot better would be if you could swim in the lake :)

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From the manager: Thank you for your kind review, we are so pleased you enjoyed your stay with us. It was lovely to meet you both, and we look forward to seeing you in the field again next year 😊.

Liked: Lovely welcome from the owner when we arrived. There was so much space, a huge field and only about 5 groups/couples in it. The toilets were very clean.

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From the manager: Thank you for your kind review 😊. We are so pleased you enjoyed your stay with us, and we look forward to seeing you in the field again next year!

Liked: The view is fantastic!

Disliked: Hard to find flat space for the tent

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From the manager: Thank you for your kind review 😊. We are so pleased you enjoyed your stay with us, and we look forward to seeing you in the field again soon!

Liked: The campsite it beautiful with a little lake to look over and plenty room for your tent / car / dogs. The owners were also lovely and came and had a chat with us when they were checking who was in the campsite. Lovely people and it was a lovely campsite. Not too far from Keswick so a quick drive and you’re able to get your shopping in and take yourself a fish and chips back!

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From the manager: Thank you for your kind review. We are so pleased you enjoyed your stay with us 😊, and we look forward to seeing you in the field again next year!

Liked: Great site, lots of space for the children to play, the toilets were kept lovely and clean. The owners are lovely and check on all theirs guests regularly over your stay. You can hire firepits and logs as well.

The most important thing to note is that this is a real back to basics site. It has no shower facilities or drinking water, so you need to take it with you, although the owners do have a supply if you need extra. The WiFi is only available in certain areas of the site, but honestly, with the views, why would you need to be looking at your phone! To access the site you do need to drive down some fairly narrow single track roads, but there are plenty of passing places. If you want to get away and enjoy the lakes this is a lovely site.

Disliked: Nothing.
Keeping our fingers crossed access to the lake is granted for next season so we can get out on the water with our SUP.

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From the manager: Thank you for your kind review. It was really lovely to meet you all and we are so pleased you enjoyed your stay with us 😊. We look forward to seeing you all in the field again next year!

Liked: We booked this campsite on Friday, when we arrived on Saturday afternoon and looked at field i knew there is 0 chance of me driving car out of that field tomorrow,because field was already muddy, and next day forecast for rain 50% in morning, Had to book another campsite.

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From the manager: Thank you for your review. In response to your comments, yes there was some mud at one of the gateways into the site on Saturday. We are a pop-up campsite advertising grass pitches and, following a week of heavy rain in the run up to Storm Lilian that hit the country on Friday morning, inevitably some mud on site was unavoidable. We take exception to your comment “because the field was already muddy”, the mud you refer to was one area of soft ground at the gateway where vehicles had been travelling on and off the site and not the entire field as you make it appear. Had you contacted us on arrival we would have been happy to discuss the situation with you and explain that we had limited bookings on the Friday night to reduce the amount of traffic on the field, that we had opened a second gateway at the other end of the field, and that we were always on hand to help anyone having difficulties entering or exiting the site. We had 42 pitches occupied on Saturday night and everyone was able to get off the site on Sunday, and the majority of those without any assistance at all. Furthermore, we tried to contact you on Saturday evening as we were aware you were not on site and we wanted to make sure that if you were arriving late, we would be on hand to assist you should you need it but you did not answer your phone. We are very sorry you chose not to stay, or even contact us on arrival to discuss your booking but, after all, you booked a grass pitch on a grass campsite after a week of heavy rain in Northern England and, as you said yourself, more rain was forecast so it should not have come as a surprise to you to find some mud on the site.