A591 road

A591 shield
A591
Route information
Length43 mi (69 km)
Major junctions
North endBothel
Major intersections A595
A66
A5271
A593
A5075
A592
A5074
A5284
A6
A590
South endSedgwick
Location
CountryUnited Kingdom
Primary
destinations
Keswick
Grasmere
Ambleside
Windermere
Kendal
Road network
The A591 as it passes between Ambleside and Grasmere

The A591 is a major road in Cumbria, which lies almost entirely within the Lake District national park.[1] A 2009 poll by satellite navigation firm Garmin named the stretch of the road between Windermere and Keswick as the most popular road in Britain.[2][3] The 29.8 mile stretch between Kendal and Keswick was also named the UK's best driving road, according to a specially devised driving ratio formulated by car rental firm Avis.[4]

  1. ^ "A591 to 2 California Terrace". Google Map.
  2. ^ "End of the Road for the Great British Drive – UK roads drive motorists to despair". Garmin. 2 March 2009.
  3. ^ "Britain's Favourite Road". Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
  4. ^ "UK's best driving roads revealed - Lake District's A591 comes out top". Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2018.