6 of the BEST wild swimming spots in Eskdale, lake district uk 

Eskdale has so much to offer, it's my favorite place 🙏💚

It really depends on how long you plan to be in the water and what terrain your in, for me wetsuits prevent a lot of cuts and scrapes and i walk from one swim to the next swimming for hours. However if I'm only going to one place and in summer id definitely rather swim natural, its more enjoyable and less to carry

Yeah apart from a few parts there is a rock underwater in the middle ALWAYS swim in and check your jump spot first 👍

😂😂😂 enjoy 😊

It is already busy, when I went there must have been about 30 people in the pools there including some type of adventure camp taking people there in an organised group. Luckily there are a number of pools and chances are you will find one to yourself like I did

@@chrisdickinson4576 There is an outward bound centre in Eskdale Green. I was there for a 3 week course in 1982 as a part of my apprenticeship. This could have been who you ran into during your visit.

@@thrapsedCould be did you go in the waterfalls back then?

@@chrisdickinson4576 Hi Chris. Not those waterfalls but we did go in others elsewhere, but I dont have a clue where now as it was so long ago. I recall one very hot day that a group of four of us lost our water down a steep mountainside and we went over 3 hours without a drop until we got to the next watering hole somewhere north of the Wasdale area. The other springs and gills were dry up to then but we finally came upon a pool at the base of a waterfall and firstly drank all the water we could then climbed in for a cool down. It was only waist deep but the water was pure, virtually straight out of the rockface many yards above us. I still have some photos of this somewhere as one of the lads actually had a decent camera with him and sent me the pictures. The only thing I can remember is that the falls were a couple of thousand feet up, which was a bit unusual and surprising to us.

Signs say wild camping is restricted and there are rangers and organised visits (whose organisers will probably report you to the rangers). There are a few camp sites close by or you could camp on the hill near by where the roman fort is - I doubt rangers go up there.