Rivendale Caravan & Leisure Park

Carsington also offers opportunities for sailing, kayaking, bird-watching and other watersports with climbing, caving and virtually every outdoor activity catered for locally.Facilities on site include a comfortable, under-floor heated shower building, laundrette, cosy pub with wood-burning stoves, café, fly fishing lake, areas for dog walking. Pitches available include all grass pitches for tents or trailer tents and hard-standing or 50/50 pitches for motor homes and caravans, mostly with 16 amp power outlets. We also offer traditional camping in the meadow with camp fires permitted in fire pits (subject to conditions) and “wild camping” pitches where people can be more isolated. Duke of Edinburgh, cadets and other youth groups are welcomed by arrangement, as are birthday, anniversary, wedding celebrationsalthough we regret we do not cater for groups such as hen and stag parties.The picturesque market towns of Ashbourne, Bakewell, Matlock, Buxton and Leek are a short drive away with a wide variety of artistic and cultural events and venues, including the famous Ashbourne Shrovetide football match, well dressings, Buxton, Ashbourne and Wirksworth arts festivals, Opera House and so on.If the weather is poor, Chatsworth, Alton Towers, The National Tramway Museum, Gullivers Kingdom, Haddon, Kedleston, Tissington, Sudbury Halls offer alternative indoor entertainment.A wide variety of accommodation is available at Rivendale in addition to the touring and seasonal pitches including Timber Yurts with wood burning stoves, power and light accommodating from 3 to 8 adults, Canvas Yurts for up to 8 people, Camping Pods for up to 5 people and luxurious Pine Lodges for up to 6 people.We also offer luxurious bedroom suites including two accessible rooms graded M2 suitable for occasional and accompanied wheel chair users. One of the Pine Lodges is also accessible and we have unisex toilets and shower rooms for disabled campers.DirectionsTravelling north on the A515 from Ashbourne towards Buxton, find Rivendale's entrance on the RHS directly off the main road.Rivendale is also accessible to people without their own vehicle as the A442 bus runs from Buxton railway station and Ashbourne bus station to the stop near our fishing lake. It is also possible to arrive by bike from the stations at Cromford, Matlock and Buxton using the High Peak & Tissington cycle trails.