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20 Best Sports & Activity Venues In Cumbria
Cumbria's twenty are mostly things done outside, in a county where that is a bet. Fourteen record open space and eleven record something under cover, and the overlap between those two numbers is where sensible planning lives. The heading also leaks badly. Windermere Canoe Kayak and Bike Hire belongs to water, Zip World Windermere to adventure and Climb 365 to activity centres, yet all three surface under sport. What the label really gathers up in Cumbria is the outdoors with equipment attached, which describes the county itself well enough.
Top sports & activity venues in Cumbria
Showing 1–12 of 20
Sports & ActivitiesCritter Creek Adventure Golf
Activity CentresClimb 365
Sports & ActivitiesEden Rock
Sports & ActivitiesBigland Hall Equestrian
Sports & ActivitiesFoxy's Adventure Golf
WaterWindermere Canoe Kayak and Bike Hire
Sports & ActivitiesAmbleside Climbing Wall
AdventureZip World Windermere
Sports & ActivitiesLakeland Climbing Centre
Sports & ActivitiesCyclewise Whinlatter Bike Hire & Shop
Sports & ActivitiesHappy Hooves Riding Centre
AdventureHonister Slate Mine Adventures
Eden Rock and Ambleside Climbing Wall are the two to hold in reserve. Both are climbing under a roof, both are indifferent to whatever the fells are doing, and both hand a child something to be pleased about on a day the weather took the original plan away. Keep one as the substitute rather than the first choice and a trip survives a bad forecast.
Sports & Activity Venues in Cumbria: FAQs
What survives a wet day here?
Not much of what sits highest here. Critter Creek Adventure Golf and Foxy's Adventure Golf are open-air. Zip World Windermere and Windermere Canoe Kayak and Bike Hire put you outside by definition, though getting wet is rather the point of the second one. Eden Rock and Ambleside Climbing Wall are the dependable pair when the cloud comes down, and they are why the category still works when the weather turns.
Two adventure golf courses in twenty entries — do they earn their place?
They do, because they take everyone. Critter Creek Adventure Golf and Foxy's Adventure Golf ask for no skill, no kit and no minimum age beyond holding a putter, which is rare in a category otherwise full of height limits and safety briefings. In a county built around serious outdoor pursuits, a putting course is the entry a grandparent and a four-year-old can both play.
Which entries need a child to be a certain size?
Zip World Windermere and Climb 365 are the likeliest, because harness venues set minimum heights and weights for safety rather than policy. Bigland Hall Equestrian will have its own limits for riders. None of these appear in our records, so ring with your child's height and weight before anything is arranged, and be ready to hear no.