About Lake District National Park

The area, which was designated a National Park on 9 May 1951 (less than a month after the first UK National Park designation — the Peak District), is the most visited national park in the United Kingdom with 15.8 million annual visitors and more than 23 million annual day visits, the largest of the thirteen National Parks in England and Wales, and the second largest in the UK after the Cairngorms. Its aim is to protect the