... now own 25% of the land in the National Park. The main activities that people undertake whilst in the Lake District include sailing and canoeing on the lakes, as well as normal pleasure boating, although water skiing is forbidden. (In summer there can be as many as 2000 boats on Windermere alone!). People also go for day trips to see sights such as the house that Wordsworth wrote in, hill walking and climbing and also mountain biking. Activities such as taking picnics are also possible in the parks that have been created by the National Park. It is also possible to visit the sites maintained by the forestry commission. Although the National Parks Authority has overall jurisdiction on the area because they do not own very much of the area they have to try and make people do things by persuasion, normally in the form of funding or other monetary persuasion. The ...

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