Woodsman sculpture from Grizedale visitor centre

Grizedale Forest is a 2447 ha area of woodland in the Lake District to the east of Coniston Water and to the south of Hawkshead containing a number of hills, small tarns and the settlements of Grizedale and Satterthwaite. It is managed by the Forestry Commission and is a popular tourist destination with footpaths, mountain biking, an aerial assault course, a 16 bed hostel, and a visitor centre with a children's playground, education centre, café and shop. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Coniston Water as seen from Holme Fell, 3 kilometres to the north. ... Hawkshead is a town in the Lake District, England. ... A tarn (or corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool, formed in a valley excavated by a glacier or corrie. ... The Forestry Commission is a government body in the United Kingdom. ... Mountain biker riding in the Arizona desert. ... Assault course (also called trim trail) is a special sort of trail that combines running and exercising. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...

Scattered throughout the forest are approximately 90 sculptures, often made from naturally occurring materials such as stone and wood. The project to place sculptures in the forest was started in by the Grizedale Society in 1977 and won the 1990 Prudential Award for the Arts. Sculptors have included David Nash and Andy Goldsworthy why hello hello Sculptor redirects here. ... Prudential plc (LSE: PRU, NYSE: PUK) is a United Kingdom-based financial services company. ... One of the Three Cones sculpture by Andy Goldsworthy at The Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York The trees and landscape surrounding this permanent sculpture on the campus of SUNY, Purchase Andy Goldsworthy (born 1956, in Cheshire) is a British sculptor and photographer living in Scotland who produces...

One quarter of the 200,000 visitors to Grizedale per year cycle. A new 9.7 mile mountain biking trail, the £167,000 North Face Trail, was opened in March 2006. The North Face is an outdoor product company. ...

The highest point within Grizedale Forest is the 317 m high Carron Crag.

Grizedale Tarn	"Light Column" by Charles Bray	Mea Culpa	Detail from Mea Culpa
Lady of the water

References

• Forestry Commission Grizedale Forest site
• Grizedale Forest on visitcumbria.com
• Grizedale Forest Park & Visitor Centre on UKattraction.com
• BritishCycling article on the North Face Trail

See Also

• Go Ape! assault course

Coordinates: 54°20′04″N, 3°1′15″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...