Keswick Mountain Festival
Keswick Mountain Festival
Keswick Mountain Festival is an outdoors sports festival with incredible entertainment taking place on 16-18 May, 2025. Once again it promises to be a wonderfully immersive experience, with an emphasis on outdoor sports, activities, live music, inspirational speakers, and an incredible array of outdoor brands, plus top-notch food and drink stalls.
You’ll find the same 16 wonderful sports events to choose from across trail running, hikes, open water swimming, cycling, triathlon, and adventure racing. But KMF25 will be slightly different from last year. Improvements, particularly in the delivery of the live music, will see The Big Top replaced with an open air live music stage; plus there will be live music in the food and drink area, as well as a new DJ bar tent.
Another change will be in the ticketing of the event and access to the festival village site. If you enter a sports event, the weekend festival experience is included within that – i.e. live music, and daytime speakers. If you simply want to enjoy the live music and speakers without entering a sports event, you need a festival ticket.
Swim events
750m Swim (including Junior Swim) – A classic in the Keswick Mountain Festival sporting line-up, the Derwent Bay open water swim is the ideal option for those just starting out in the world of wild swimming.
Derwent Isle 1.5km Swim – The 1,500 metre option is great for the more experienced open water swimmer and is one lap of Derwent Isle. Ages 16+ only.
Derwentwater Point to Point Swim 3.6km Swim – take in the views of surrounding hills, Catbells and Skiddaw as you swim past the several islands on the lake, including St Herbert’s Island, Rampsholme Island and Derwent Island, on your journey to the finish at Crow Park.