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Ravenstonedale, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria & Lake District

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"Camping as it used to be" sums up this quiet, eco-friendly, family-run site central to the Lakes and Dales. Spacious tent pitches, each with a fire pit, are set around the sides of a big meadow. Attractive, modern shower rooms and loos. There's also cosy glamping with private facilities in a separate field. Enjoy lovely views, natural surroundings and lots of space to play. Great walks from your tent, close to village pubs too. Pets welcome.

Peaceful, friendly site with superb views, excellent facilities and campfires - great for walking!

Ten minute stroll to dog friendly village pubs serving good food and ales

Central location in the National Park for the Lakes and Dales

About Low Greenside Farm Campsite

At the foot of the Howgill Fells in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Low Greenside is perfect for a relaxed camping or glamping holiday for couples, families or friends. This beautiful, quiet, unspoiled area is ideal for exploring the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District - but with none of their hustle and bustle. It's is an eco friendly site where everything is designed to be sustainable without sacrificing looks, comfort or utility. Well designed, low impact buildings house attractive, family size shower rooms with walk-in showers, and modern water saving toilets. Large areas of grass are kept long for wildlife and children, and there is a programme of planting native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers. The owners are proud to have a Silver Award from the Green Tourism Scheme. Large pitches for tents and three campervan pitches are positioned around the edges of a very spacious field, making room for everyone to enjoy in peace. The site is justly proud that many visitors return year after year or several times a year. After a day out exploring, return home to a peaceful campsite to relax and enjoy life's simple pleasures. The friendly sheep are very happy to be fed bits of bread and will come trotting over when they see you. If you're lucky, you'll see a red squirrel popping along the drystone walls. Wander down to one of the two village pubs or light your campfire and watch the sunset, toast your marshmallows and wait for the stars to come out in an inky black sky. The campsite is in an International Dark Skies Reserve and is a Dark Sky Business. In an adjacent field, there are two options for glampers - Far Field Yurt for couples or families, and Green Bell Tent for couples only. Both offer the chance to relax in peace and comfort while surrounded by nature! What could be better? The yurt and bell tent each have their own private cooking facilities, bijou private composting toilet, and a garden with campfire and BBQ, lovely double hammock, picnic table and seating. Plenty of space for quiet contemplation of the gorgeous views as well as running wild and playing games. All glamping is off grid and solar powered. Far Field Yurt is fully insulated and beautifully equipped for couples or families. The yurt is framed by a little woodland, its own garden and a meadow in front. Inside is light and spacious, with large windows and a clear central roof dome for stargazing. Furnished with a wood burning stove to keep you toasty warm, handmade and vintage furniture, and comfy modern beds. The yurt's kitchen hut is equipped to cook proper meals for up to five people. Like the yurt, Green Bell Tent is spacious, comfy, and very private. With a double bed, cosy furnishings, and cooking facilities to make a great fry-up or camp meal for two. Outside is the woodland, garden with meadow in front, campfire/BBQ, picnic table, seating, and comfy double hammock. Either camping or glamping, Low Greenside is equally perfect for romantic getaways or family holidays.

Pitches and the yurt are available from the end of March, the bell tent from the start of May. The site closes mid September.

Green Tourism (Silver)

Facilities and amenities

The individual shower rooms are all family size. Toilets are all in separate rooms, each with its own basin. Other facilities include indoor washing up area, laundry sinks, ice block freezer, fridge, sockets for hairdryers and blowing up airbeds. Secure phone charging lockers. All facilities are free of charge. A fire pit is included on every pitch and there is EV charging onsite.

Two dog-friendly village pubs serving local food and ales within a 15 minute walk, in the village of Ravenstonedale.

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Family friendly

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Near beach

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Near pub

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Open year round

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Peaceful

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Vineyard

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A note from the site themselves...

We love living here and running our campsite. We get the nicest people coming to stay - quietly sociable and considerate of fellow campers - and they make it a delight. Magnus is the second generation running the business and took to it like a duck to water. We enjoy making it all work well, meeting everyone, and seeing our guests having a happy time.

We're very pleased to have achieved a Silver Award for Green Tourism. The Award highlights how we take care of and enhance the natural environment by creating better spaces for nature to flourish, what we do to reduce our impact on the climate, and how we support local businesses, and ethical suppliers.

We also support a charity in Malawi that helps subsistence farmers to increase food production and soil health through organic farming.

Our priority is providing a well-managed, clean and beautiful place for our visitors to relax in and enjoy our lovely countryside.

It's a simple recipe made with good ingredients. By sticking to our values, we've been able to create a campsite we're proud of and it's a joy to see our visitors enjoy it and return year after year.


Map and address

Park address

Low Greenside Farm Campsite,

Greenside Lane, Ravenstonedale, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria & Lake District, CA17 4LU

Coordinates

54.4313, -2.4411 | NY 71 4

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Low Greenside Farm Campsite is ideal for...

Couples

Duke of Edinburgh Award

Older children (13+)

Peace and quiet

Young children


There are 32 accommodation options on-site

Bookable pitches and accommodation options

Non Electric Grass Backpacker Pitch at Low Greenside Farm Campsite

Non Electric Grass Backpacker Pitch

Max 1 people

Spacious grass pitch with lovely views and a campfire for a single person with a small tent.

Non Electric Grass Tent Pitch at Low Greenside Farm Campsite

20 x Non Electric Grass Tent Pitch

Max 6 people

Spacious grass pitch with lovely views and a campfire - choose the one you like best. Includes either two large tents or one small and one extra large tent. No extra charge for more than one tent or for gazebos.

Large Non Electric Grass Tent Pitch at Low Greenside Farm Campsite

3 x Large Non Electric Grass Tent Pitch

Max 10 people

Spacious grass pitch with lovely views and a campfire, great for groups. No charges for extra tents or a gazebo.

Non Electric Grass Campervan Pitch at Low Greenside Farm Campsite

3 x Non Electric Grass Campervan Pitch

Grass pitches for campervans in a little field of their own. Lovely views and a campfire. Available during the school summer holidays only.

Non Electric Hardstanding Campervan Pitch at Low Greenside Farm Campsite

2 x Non Electric Hardstanding Campervan Pitch

Grassed hardstanding for campervans or small motorhomes. Great views and a campfire on adjacent grass.

Hardstanding Pitch (Optional Electric)  at Low Greenside Farm Campsite

Hardstanding Pitch (Optional Electric)

Grassed hardstanding for campervans or small motorhomes. Great views and a campfire on adjacent grass. With optional electric hook up.


Low Greenside Farm Campsite reviews

4.9 /5

Highly rated
51 reviews
Overall
4.9
Location
4.82
Value for money
4.9
Service
4.92
Facilities
4.92
Cleanliness
4.94

Great site with lovely views and great facilities

Rachel S

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Large Tent - Non Electric Grass Tent PitchAug 2023

This is our second visit to Low Greenside campsite. Since our last visit, the shower and washing up facilities have been improved, making this a more enjoyable stay. Lovely site with amazing views and a great location for exploring the Lake District. We will definitely stay again and would recommend.

Site's response

Thanks for your review, Rachel. We're glad you enjoyed coming again and like the new campsite facilities. We agree - it's a great to be in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and have great access to the Lakes at the same time! Hope to see you again next year.

Amazing little campsite

Andy B

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Medium Tent - Non Electric Grass Tent PitchAug 2023

Stayed for two nights, couldn't ask for any more. Brilliant (and clean) showers, toilets and washing facilities. Campfire with wood available to buy on site. Lovely village a 5 min walk away with a playpark for the little ones and two pubs for the not so little ones.

Site's response

Thanks Andy, glad you and the little ones had nice weekend.

Perfect stay

Camille M

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VW-Type Campervan - Non Electric Grass Campervan PitchAug 2023

That was perfect. It is a very nice place to stay, very clean. The owner is very nice, I recommend!

Site's response

Thank you Camille! So glad you had a perfect stay and thank you very much for your recommendation.

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FAQ

Tent and campervan campers are welcome to check-in between 2pm and 8pm, and departure is due by 11am. If glamping, check-in is between 3pm and 8pm and departure is then by 11:30am.

If staying on one of the pitches, dogs are welcome with a maximum of three per pitch. Dogs are not allowed in the glamping accommodation, sorry.

Fire pits are provided and BBQs are welcome as long as they are raised from the ground.

Visitors here like to enjoy quiet between 10:30pm and 8:30am. Recorded music and radios aren't allowed at any time - but if you want to bring your guitar and have a play, you're more than welcome!

Yes, all are free of charge.


There's plenty to see and do in this lovely corner of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, with pretty villages and interesting market towns to explore, lots of nice little shops and cafes with friendly people running them. You'll find the roads quiet and walking very peaceful.

There's a great choice of long or short walks from your tent door. The campsite offers a useful walking guide - Nine Great Walks from Low Greenside (£3). Smardale Ghyll Nature Reserve is a favourite walk from the farm, crossing a big old railway viaduct - see massive lime kilns, lots of wildflowers and rare butterflies.

Other circular walks from the farm are via one of the two village pubs, all through beautiful limestone countryside. You can also walk straight out to the Howgill Fells and go for miles with only sheep and ponies for company.

Pretty Ravenstonedale village is a 10 minute stroll away. The Black Swan and The King's Head both serve excellent food (including breakfasts if you're feeling indulgent) and real ales.

There's a lovely, informal, and inexpensive 9-18 hole golf course (clubs available free of charge at the campsite), a public tennis court (bring a racquet), children's playground, interesting church with monastic ruins, and an art gallery. Catch a vintage bus from Ravenstonedale to visit Kendal or Barnard Castle on weekly market days.

Nearby you can hire bicycles, go pony trekking across the fells, or try trout fishing - catch one and BBQ it later!

In Kirkby Stephen (5 miles), you can shop locally for everything you're likely to need. There are lots of cafes and small shops to explore as well as a supermarket. Visit the little railway museum free of charge and ride on a steam train.

Follow the Poetry Path along an extraordinary and beautiful stretch of the River Eden. Ride on the scenic Settle-Carlisle Railway from Kirkby Stephen for a day out to Settle, Appleby or Dentdale.

The Eden Valley is lovely to explore, with quiet roads, pretty villages, small attractions, and unspoiled and varied countryside. Appleby and Sedbergh are both nearby and worth visiting. Far Field Mill Arts and Heritage Centre near Sedbergh is a place to stop for tea on a return trip from Hawes where there is lots to see and do.

The listing for Low Greenside Farm Campsite was last updated on March 22nd, 2024 at 10:22 AM

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