A major Lake District pass will close for most of June as part of a major safety project. Work will commence on the A592 Kirkstone Pass on Monday, 5 June as the 6.8km stretch will close until Friday, 30 June.

The project, which is being managed by Westmorland and Furness Council, is improvement works as part of a Department for Transport (DfT) ‘Safer Roads Project’. The work is focused on a 6.8km section of the A592 between Brothers Water on the northern end and Hird Wood on the southern end of Kirkstone Pass.

This will be a 24-hour, seven days a week closure, between Brothers Water and the Kirkstone Inn. Monday will see the first sections of new safety crash barriers installed.

The Kirkstone Inn will remain accessible throughout this closure period via Windermere and Ambleside. Sykeside Camping Park and Brotherswater Inn will remain accessible throughout the closures via Glenridding and businesses in Glenridding, Patterdale and Pooley Bridge will be open as usual and access to these will be via the Penrith end of the A592.

Traffic Marshalls will be at either end of the closure and there will be a fully-signed diversion route in place throughout, which will be reviewed regularly.

Please note the road is completely closed off to vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists during this closure. People are requested to not to try to access the works site during the closure and barriers are in place for your safety.

Temporary traffic signals will then be installed for two weeks starting on Monday, 3 July. This will also include night-time closures during these two weeks from 7pm to 6am.

Additional road closures will then take place on the following dates, weather permitting:

11 September 2023 - for two weeks to carry out full width reconstruction on certain areas, which means excavating the full width of the carriageway.

1 March 2024 – a three week closure to finalise the resurfacing.

More information on road diversions will be available nearer the time of each closure.

Councillor Peter Thornton, Westmorland and Furness Council’s Cabinet member for Highways and Assets, said: "

"We recognise that these works will cause some disruption in the short-term and we apologise for any inconvenience caused, but they are necessary to improve the long-term safety of the A592 route."