Great Tower Estate offers opportunities for a variety of groups such as D of E Award, Youth Organisations, School groups, industry training schemes (management and developmental), and Special needs groups.

Great Tower is on the east side of Lake Windermere, midway between Bowness and Newby Bridge, 250 acres of heavily wooded and rocky terrain offers many varied campsites ranging from large areas close to camp centre facilities for younger and less experienced groups, to Isolated woodland clearings to test the skills of more experienced campers.
A number of buildings are also available for those requiring indoor residential accommodation, 2 x 6 bed building and 1 x 27 bed building..
On site facilities include 3 toilet blocks (with Hot water provided, hot and cold showers in main shower block), small shop, drying machines, and full site staff. On site activities include orienteering, pioneering, forestry, dry-stone walling, abseiling, rock climbing and fell-craft, with sailing, canoeing, sail-boarding at our nearby water activities centre, whilst off site the variety available widens to include pony trekking, hill and fell walking. An Ideal site for day visits i.e. field studies, orienteering, or any of the many other activities for which the site us suitable.

Prior booking a must.

There is a wealth of wildlife on Great Tower which includes two herds of deer (one Red, one Roe), red squirrels, badgers, many varieties of birds, insects and, in undisturbed areas, many species of plants and flowers abound.