Kendal Mountain Campsite

The Kendal Mountain Campsite offers both camping and campervan options for visitors to the Kendal Mountain Festival. Primarily, this is a ‘walk-in’ campsite for festival visitors to bring their tents to camp on the school playing fields, and we hope to encourage sustainable travel to the festival. There is some limited campervan parking on areas of hard standing. We also offer pre-erected tents that visitors can hire. There is access to the school sports facilities, such as toilets and showers, and a large marquee-covered area to provide shelter for campers to cook and socialise.

  • Bring your own tent

  • Hire a pre-erected tent

  • Stay in your campervan

The Kendal Mountain Campsite can only operate outside school hours.

We want to highlight that the Kendal Mountain Campsite is a ‘WALK-IN’ campsite. There are no car parking facilities and no space for vehicles to drop-off/collect, and because the campsite is on the school playing fields, there is a strict NO DOGS policy.

The Kendal Mountain Campsite is part of the Kendal Mountain Festival and a collaboration between Kirkbie Kendal School and Ourea Events with support from our partners Terra Nova and CampWild.

The photos above are illustrative of what we expect the atmosphere at the Kendal Mountain Campsite will be like. They are not images of the actual campsite, as this will be our first year of offering this facility.


Exclusive Try Before You Buy Offer

Kendal Mountain Festival is proud to partner with Terra Nova, the 2024 tent brand of the year, to offer all our campers an exclusive ‘try and buy’ offer. Choose to experience your stay at the Festival in the quality of a Terra Nova tent for the weekend with the opportunity to purchase that tent with a 30% Kendal Mountain Festival exclusive discount.

Terra Nova / 30% off RRP

  1. Vault Duo - RRP £950. Offer £665

  2. Laser Compact AS – £690. Offer £483

  3. Laser Compact 2 – £660. Offer £462

  4. Starlite 1 – RRP £650. Offer £390

  5. Starlite 2 – RRP £790. Offer £474

  6. Southern Cross 1 - RRP £700. Offer £420

  7. Southern Cross 2 - RRP £900. Offer £540

  8. Solar Photon – RRP £750. Offer £525

  9. Voyager – RRP £740. Offer £518

Wild Country / 35% off RRP

  1. Helm Compact 1 - RRP £250. Offer £175

  2. Helm Compact 2 - RRP £300. Offer £210

  3. Helm Compact 3 - RRP £360. Offer £252

  4. Panacea 1 - RRP £325. Offer £227


Our community of campers will also have a chance to meet with CampWild, based at the Camping Village, to share and grow the camping community even wilder.


TentMeals will be exhibiting at the Camping Village, offering free samples of their excellent meals for campers to taste each morning and evening.


Bring your own tent

  • The cost is just £15 per person per night if you are staying in your own tent. Please remember that this is a walk-in campsite, and you’ll need to be able to carry your tent into it. This is the best option for staying in your personal tried and tested tent and a very economical way to organise your accommodation whilst visiting the Kendal Mountain Festival.

Terra Nova and Wild Country Tents

  • We have a range of pre-erected and brand-new Terra Nova and Wild Country tents. The cost is £25 per person per night, and you don’t have to worry about travelling with or drying your tent afterwards! Brilliant. These tents are also available to purchase with a 30-35% discount off the RRP after sleeping in them.

Blue Rent a Tent

  • Blue Rent-a-Tent

    These tents are the tried-and-tested large air-beam family camping tents used by Ourea Events on the Dragon’s Back Race® and Cape Wrath Ultra®. They comfortably sleep four adults and have a maximum capacity of eight. As shown in the picture above. At full capacity, they work out at just £12.50 per person per night. Bargain!

CAMPER VAN

  • There is limited parking in the staff car park for festival visitors to bring their own campervans. These parking slots are in car-sized parking spaces, and therefore we can only accept short wheel-based vans and no motor homes. Maximum occupancy is four adults and the price works at just £12.50 per person per night. There are no electrical hook ups.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT AT THE KENDAL MOUNTAIN CAMPSITE

Welcome

Friendly and professional staff from Ourea Events

Dedicated check-in gazebo for registering on arrival

Excellent customer service support from our office team - [speak to them any time via email, live chat or on the phone!]

FACILITIES

Access to school sports changing rooms, showers and toilets

Access to mains drinking water

Other

SECURITY

Fully fenced campsite on private school grounds and playing field

24/7 gated access

24/7 private security guards

Wrist band only access for all campers

Information

Kendal Mountain Campsite location:

 
  • The Kendal Mountain Campsite is at Kirkbie Kendal School. This is a 5-minute walk from the Base Camp and a 10-minute walk from Kendal Town Centre. The address is:

    Kirkbie Kendal School, Lound Rd, Kendal LA9 7EQ

    • Arrival from – 18:00

    • Departure by - 16:00

  • Please follow the signs to the registration gazebo at the entrance to the playing fields, where you'll be able to check in and receive your security wristband.

  • It is essential that the Kendal Mountain Campsite is safe and secure for the enjoyment of our visitors. Therefore, we will implement a strict security policy enforced by a third-party security company.

    • Access is only allowed for pre-booked named campers.

    • All campers will need to wear their security wristband issued at check-in to gain access to the campsite. It is very simple... no wristband = no access.

    1. No vehicles on the grass playing fields.

    2. No dogs

    3. No fires or BBQs

    4. No litter

  • We would like to draw your attention to the fact that there is NO CAR PARKING at the Kendal Mountain Campsite.

    This is a 'walk-in' campsite.

    There is no 'drop-off' space and access to the school grounds, including the school staff car parking is restricted and managed by our security company.

    If you need to park, you'll be responsible for finding your own car parking on public roads - please do not cause a nuisance to local residents.

More about Kendal Mountain Festival

We expect that the Festival Campsite will become an integral and very popular element of the Kendal Mountain Festival. The Kendal Mountain Festival is the UK’s premier festival of adventure sport films, speakers and literature. There will be live and in-person presentations, which will also be available online via the Festival digital player. Why not join us for the weekend? For more Festival info and tickets visit: www.kendalmountainfestival.com

Questions?

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