http://www.peakdistricttourism.co.uk/camping-caravanning/camping-and-caravanning-in-the-peak-district Peak District Tourist Information & Peak District Holiday Accommodation Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:31:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.peakdistricttourism.co.uk/camping-caravanning/camping-and-caravanning-in-the-peak-district/comment-page-1#comment-120 Jed Potter Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:34:21 +0000 http://www.peakdistricttourism.co.uk/?p=17#comment-120 As a long-time fan of the Lake District, I was grudgingly persuaded to visit the Peak District and was very impressed. The two National Parks are both special in their own different ways. The Peak District is so accessible for most people. An hours drive from Nottingham saw me at Rivendale enjoying far-reaching views over rolling Derbyshire hills from the Mongolian Yurt on site. Whilst the cliffs and mountains of the Lake district are certainly bigger, the Peak District offers some truly spectacular scenery with greater variation between the limestone of the White Peak area and the gritstone of the Dark Peak. From Rivendale we walked just 200 metres directly from the site before descending into Cold Eaton Dale. As we walked down the dale the scenery got increasingly dramatic as the sides of the dale got steeper with limestone outcrops and we arrived at Mill Dale under the cliffs of Iron Tor. Turning right up Mill Dale, we crossed the Dove and struggled up a steep bank to the top of Drabber Tor - from where there are fantastic views of Wolfscote Dale & Biggin dale. We were lucky in having superb weather that day, the other days the weather was mixed. But this is where the Peak District really scores - with loads of stately homes (including Chatsworth), Alton Towers, the Derwent Valley World heritage site, National Tram Museum, Gullivers Kingdom, Heights of Abraham and so on all providing something of interest for every age group - and all of it within about 30 minutes drive. Rivendale is apparently more than 1000 feet above sea level - hence the wood-burning stove inside the Yurt. We just used it for cooking breakfast but it certainly proved itself capable of heating the Yurt. We will be back this winter. As a long-time fan of the Lake District, I was grudgingly persuaded to visit the Peak District and was very impressed. The two National Parks are both special in their own different ways.
The Peak District is so accessible for most people. An hours drive from Nottingham saw me at Rivendale enjoying far-reaching views over rolling Derbyshire hills from the Mongolian Yurt on site.
Whilst the cliffs and mountains of the Lake district are certainly bigger, the Peak District offers some truly spectacular scenery with greater variation between the limestone of the White Peak area and the gritstone of the Dark Peak.
From Rivendale we walked just 200 metres directly from the site before descending into Cold Eaton Dale. As we walked down the dale the scenery got increasingly dramatic as the sides of the dale got steeper with limestone outcrops and we arrived at Mill Dale under the cliffs of Iron Tor. Turning right up Mill Dale, we crossed the Dove and struggled up a steep bank to the top of Drabber Tor – from where there are fantastic views of Wolfscote Dale & Biggin dale. We were lucky in having superb weather that day, the other days the weather was mixed. But this is where the Peak District really scores – with loads of stately homes (including Chatsworth), Alton Towers, the Derwent Valley World heritage site, National Tram Museum, Gullivers Kingdom, Heights of Abraham and so on all providing something of interest for every age group – and all of it within about 30 minutes drive.
Rivendale is apparently more than 1000 feet above sea level – hence the wood-burning stove inside the Yurt. We just used it for cooking breakfast but it certainly proved itself capable of heating the Yurt. We will be back this winter.

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