**** Parking information for the 2026 race will be updated by the end of Wednesday 30th September after an inspection at the Event field****
Start / Finish: tbc after Weds 30th September
Hartsop (Legs 1-2 Changeover): is free in the field you will be directed from the main road. Parking is limited and we ask that only 2 cars per Club are taken here. It is less than 5 mins walk to the changeover at the sheep pens. We have had problems with Camper-vans parking at Hartsop: please park as directed by the marshals or better still don’t take larger vehicles up there.
Portaloos are available at the Sheep-pens at Hartsop changeover.
Parking at Kirkstone (legs 2-3 Changeover) is severely restricted and particularly sensitive, especially as the car park is now a pay & display. Unfortunately, we are not exempt from these charges, so all cars entering the car park will have to pay. The charges are:
1 hour xxxx 2 hours xxxx
You MUST pay these charges, we cannot be responsible if you incur a fine for not doing so, so we suggest you car-share as much as possible and use the area as a drop-off and pick-up spot as much as possible.
There is some parking at Red Pit car park, 800m down the road towards Brotherswater but there is NO roadside parking at Kirkstone; if teams park on the road without marshal consent they will be disqualified.
Please do not use Kirkstone Inn as a ‘spectator point’ as we do not have the car parking capacity to allow this; use Hartsop and Sykeside to watch the race unfold if you wish.
Portaloos are available at the Kirkstone car park.
Parking at Sykeside (Legs 3-4 Changeover) Parking permits for Sykeside will also be issued at Registration. Access to the parking at Sykeside is by the top entrance (Kirkstone side) to the site. Please park as directed. If the parking is full you will be asked to drop leg 4 runners off and return to Patterdale. Do not park in the car park by the Brotherswater Inn – it is for the use of the pub’s lunchtime patrons and we have not paid for its use. There is absolutely no road side parking by the Brotherwater Inn. It is only about 15 mins jog from Hartsop to Sykeside takeover along the west shore of Brotherswater.
Portaloos are available at the Hartsop Hall changeover (not the campsite or the land around Hartsop Hall)
Please drive safely between takeovers. If running to a takeover or between takeovers, please keep to public footpaths in the valley bottom and do not take short-cuts across open land, it might be privately owned. And close all gates please!