Lancaster parkrun

The park is served by the number 18 bus service from Lancaster city centre. This will drop you at the Wyresdale Road gate (Moorlands). Follow the path into the park and you will see the monument.

Williamson Park is located near the centre of Lancaster. On foot the park can be accessed from Quernmore Road, Wyresdale Road or Fenham Carr Lane.

There are bicycle racks both near the café as well as in the disabled car park.

Leave the M6 at junction 33 or 34 and follow the signs for Lancaster City Centre. Once in the city follow tourist information signs for 'Ashton Memorial' or 'Butterfly House'. There are two pay and display car parks in Williamson Park. Please use the main car park at Wyresdale Road (SatNav LA1 3DY). Disabled parking is available, accessed from Quernmore Road (SatNav LA1 1UX). On road parking is available at both locations but please check for restrictions.

Every week we grab a post-parkrun coffee: The Pavilion Café, Williamson Park. Please come and join us!

Every week we grab a post parkrun coffee in The Pavilion Café, Williamson Park - please come and join us!

Lancaster parkrun is a fun, free event organised by volunteers for the benefit of everyone. We wish to make the event as safe as possible, so participants, spectators and helpers are asked to take care about the following:

• Please be considerate to the park and other park users at all times.
• Children under the age of eleven must be accompanied (within arm's reach) throughout the event by a parent, guardian or appropriate adult of the parent's choice.
• Please arrive by foot, by pedal-power or by public transport if you can - your efforts help to reduce our impact on the park and the planet.
• We invite everyone to consider volunteering at parkrun. Your support helps your parkrun events remain sustainable and free for all in your community, and it’s also a wonderful way to improve your own health and happiness. Please visit the volunteer page for more information.
• Take care near roads and car parks – some vehicles drive very quickly. Please congregate away from the cars and be careful in particular if you have children. If you’re driving to the event, please drive carefully.
• Take care on uneven surfaces – whether on grass or on tarmac. Watch out for cyclists, other participants, pedestrians, children, dogs, wildlife, park animals, vehicles, park maintenance work, falling branches, bollards, posts and other obstacles around the course.
• Please ensure that you are fit enough to walk, jog, run 5k (3.1 miles) with us.
• If you see someone with a serious problem, please stop to help them out and get help as soon as possible.
• If you’re watching, keep clear of participants on the course, and look after any children and dogs you may have with you.
• It is not permitted to run with a pushchair and a dog at the same time.
• Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks. Consider protecting yourself by wearing repellent when at parkrun events in grassy or wooded areas. See lymediseaseuk.com for further details.
• You are welcome to take part with one dog by your side, within reach at all times, on a short, handheld, non-extendable lead. The use of waist harnesses is prohibited. Please also see this Support Site entry for further details about parkrunning with dogs.
• parkrunners pushing buggies are welcome, but please take care of others around you and do your best to start at an appropriate place in the field for your pace.
• The course is mainly tarmac with a trail section with some woodland steps. The steps have a slope alongside so it is possible to run the course with a buggy, although sections of Fenham Carr will be difficult in wet weather.

We hope these tips help to ensure that Lancaster parkrun is fun and safe for everyone.

All parkrun events use Age Grading to help parkrunners compare results.

parkrun events use Age Grading to help parkrunners see progress and compare results.

For more information, please see our Support page.

All parkrun events are organised by volunteers - email lancaster@parkrun.com to help.

parkrun is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk. For our full safeguarding processes and policies please see our Safeguarding Hub.

To report a safeguarding concern please email safeguarding@parkrun.com.