Lake District National Park
England's largest national park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site — and Keswick sits in the northern half of it, under Skiddaw.
Every major sight in and around Keswick, from the landmark names to the quieter corners.
Castlerigg Stone Circle
Around 3200 BC, on a hill with a 360-degree ring of fells around it — free, unfenced, open at all hours, and the finest-sited stone circle in Britain.
Derwent Pencil Museum
The graphite of Borrowdale, the world's first pencils, a wartime pencil with a map inside it, and the longest coloured pencil on earth.
Hope Park
Keswick's gardens between the town and the lake — pitch and putt, crazy golf, a boating pond and the best-kept municipal planting in Cumbria.
Friars Crag
A short level walk from Keswick to a promontory on Derwentwater — the view Ruskin called one of the finest in Europe, and the National Trust's…
Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum
A working quarry turned volunteer museum five kilometres from Keswick — earth-moving machines, a narrow-gauge railway, a real mine and gold panning.
Keswick Museum
The town's own collection — geology, the Lake Poets, local history, and a set of musical stones you are allowed to play.