Butty Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 We are planning our trip in August we will be using Troutbeck Head camp site which we have used before and really enjoyed our stay there, and the other camp site we will be using is Meathop Fell which we have never used before, so the simple question is as anyone else been to Meathop Fell and could you tell us what it is like and what the surrounding area is like. We are members of the caravan club and to be honest we have not yet found a bad site. Hope you can help out and thanks very much if you can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROON Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Hi Butty, I just went onto Meathop site reviews and they were a bit mixed so you might be best reading them. It appears that there are a few sloping grass pitches and only a few hard standing level ones. There don't appear to be many places to walk to and the local hotel where one couple went for a meal was unfriendly and expensive. Struggling to copywith this vista thing so couldn't put a hyperlink for you sorry. Joy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ina Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Hi Butty We went to Meathop Fell last weekend for 3 nights. We have used this site regularly for quite a few years now, as it is open all year and relatively close to where we live. It is a CC site, and therefore facilities are what you would expect on any CC site. Most pitches are hardstandings and, as commented on above, a few of the pitches are a bit on the slopy side, but that is just a matter of having a good look around for the best pitch, which we do on every site. Have never been on grass pitches there. There is not much in the immediate area. We like walking and cycling, but in winter we don't take the bikes, only go walking. We walk into Grange-over-Sands every time we go, and that takes around 50 minutes each way. Grange is nice to have a potter round, but also there are some nice walks from there, Hampsfell for one. We did that last Saturday, from the site into Grange, from there on to the fell, back into Grange, called into a couple of shops and in total that took about 4.5 hours. Sunday we walked in the other direction, turned right out of the site and followed the road round to the A590, there is a minor road alongside it, which takes you to a roundabout near Levens Hall, you can then cross the A590 again, and walk along the estuary all the way, with views across to Silverdale etc. That took a good 3 hours. Adjacent to the site is another site, a static one from what I can make out, with a restaurant on site, but we have never tried that. Some reviews in the site information room don't recommend it, so it put us off a bit. When we have taken our bikes, we have of course been able to go further afield, there is a very small airfield at Cark where, in good weather, they do parachute jumping and we went to watch that 1 day. Cartmel is another village you can walk to, a lovely village it is too. The site has a lot of birdlife, we always take feeders with us and it's great to watch them all. Ina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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