Mountain Goat Tours

About

Mountain Goat Tours has over 50 years’ experience and recognises itself as the No.1 Lake District tour specialist. Mountain Goat has rightfully made its mark of distinction and won the ‘Minibus Operator of the Year Award’ in 2010 and was Finalist of ‘Experience of the Year’ in 2022.

Established in 1972, Mountain Goat offers renowned exciting and inspiring guided sightseeing tours across the Lake District, Hadrian’s Wall, and Yorkshire Dales. They also provide exclusive group hire, walking guide services and touring holidays in most National Park areas of the UK. The company work with and have built a strong rapport with many leading UK Tour/Coach operators in addition to many international tour companies particularly Japanese, American, and Australasia.

Full Day Ten Lakes Spectacular Tour

​​​​This stunning tour covers the North, South and central Lake District and is a perfect introduction to the area. The Lake District is often referred to as the “most beautiful corner of England” and this full day tour introduces you too just that. Magnificent scenery of mountains, valleys, and lakes from the south to the north. The tour includes a visit to the 4,000-year-old Castlerigg Stone Circle set high on the fells, and time in Keswick. You travel over passes, through beautiful valleys, see waterfalls and Lakeland villages. You have plenty of stops for admiring the views and taking photographs.

Full Day High Adventure Tour

This spectacular tour exploring the Western part of the Lake District over the high passes visiting 'Britain's Favourite View', Wastwater and the splendid 14th Century Muncaster Castle. Here we explore the Western Lake District, and our route is that fashioned by Emperor Hadrian’s Roman legions in the first century AD. Over the Wrynose and Hardknott passes, the steepest in England we drive past the extraordinary remains of Hardknott Roman Fort 1000 ft up on the fells. You will have the opportunity to walk through the fort and see the spectacular view to Upper Eskdale, Scafell and Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountains. In the afternoon we drive onward to Wastwater, voted ‘Britain’s Favourite View and England’s deepest and most dramatic lake. Our next destination is the splendid 14th century castle of Muncaster surrounded by its internationally acclaimed gardens with magnificent examples of azaleas, camelias and rhododendrons. You also can visit the renowned World Owl Trust. The beautiful scenery of the Coniston Fells and Coniston Water end this classic of all Lake District tours.

Half Day Beatrix Potter’s Favourite Countryside Tour

Half-day tour visiting many of Beatrix Potter's favourite past times and places.
This tour is the ideal way to explore the favourite places associated with Beatrix Potter. We travel north alongside Lake Windermere to Waterhead and then from here we drive to Beatrix Potter’s Hill Top farm where she wrote many of her famous children's stories in this little 17th century stone house. Entrance to the house can be purchased before the start of the tour. Our next stop is the medieval village of Hawkshead where you have time to explore this fascinating village. On our way to Coniston Water, we drive through the renowned beauty spot of Tarn Hows where we stop for a photo. The tour continues through Yewdale, passing Yew Tree Tarn and Skelwith Bridge then back to Windermere and Bowness. Sit back and enjoy a lake cruise on one of the famous lakes.

Scheduled Daily Tours

We offer a range of scheduled daily tours departing all year around from Windermere, Bowness, Ambleside & Kendal. Throughout the summer season (April – October) we also offer tours departing from Keswick.

Full Day
• Ten Lakes
• High Adventure
• Yorkshire Dales
• Hadrian’s Wall & Roman Britain

Half Day
• Beatrix Potter’s Favourite Countryside
• Six Lakes Spectacular

Private tours

Mountain Goat's Signature tours service is a great way to see the Lake District and Yorkshire. You will have exclusive use of both our vehicles and our driver/guide, and you can choose from full or half day tours. We can arrange any of our pre-designed itineraries as a private tour or arrange a bespoke tailor-made tour to suit your interests. We currently offer two types of vehicles to hire, our Mercedes V-Class which can seat 7 passengers in luxury or for larger groups our 16-seater Mercedes minibus.

Private Hire

With a fleet of over 25 vehicles, we offer competitive prices and can cater for groups of any size. Our small minibuses are ideal for adventuring the narrow Lakeland roads where larger vehicles can't reach.

• Wedding transfers
• Walking transfers
• Airport transfers
• Race days

Groups

We provide services for coach and group operators. Ideal for coach drivers’ days off. Our 16-seater minibuses make the inaccessible accessible.
Group rates: on request.

Travel Trade

If you're an agent and you would like to sell our products and services, we would be delighted to offer commissionable or net rates. We can also set up a credit account, after completing a credit check.

Once we have completed the initial checks, we can set up an agent portal where you can check live availability and book our products, receiving an instant confirmation. 

We provide the following:

• Detailed itineraries
• Customised itineraries
• Downloadable image gallery
• Passenger reviews and testimonials
• Dedicated office support, 7 days a week
• Agent booking portal with live availability.
• Commissionable or net rates

Contact us

Email: tours@mountain-goat.com

Website: www.mountain-goat.com

Phone: +44 15394 45161

Whatsapp: +447827224291

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