The cable car would be the type that is used in ski resorts to lift passengers up mountains.
The Times reports that the Lake District National Park authority itself is arguing that a cable car from Whinlatter would take visitors to a beauty spot near Keswick without having to add traffic to the roads.
However a group called Friends of the Lake District are arguing that the cable car would cause overcrowding with tourists both on the roads and in the national park itself – and would also be an eyesore.
They have called the plan a “wholly inappropriate aerial infrastructure… visible from iconic viewpoints such as Latrigg and Dodd Fell”.
The plan is part of a new “vision” for the area, which has been described as “significant opportunities for intensification” in a plan by the Lake District National Park authority.
The plan also reveals that visitors for the cable car would park at Keswick before getting a shuttle bus to it, as well as extension of the visitor centre at Whinlatter.
Douglas Chalmers, chief executive of Friends of the Lake District, said: “There has been concern for some time that the Lake District National Park is becoming too commercialised. This feeling has increased in recent months.
“Artificial attractions will not benefit, but actually will threaten our environment, our economy and our local communities.”
However Friends of the Lake District have argued that the cable car would become a tourist attraction in its own right.
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The plans will be revised next year, before they are put into action in 2020.
The Lake District was voted as the best getaway spot in The Sun's Great British Bucketlist competition earlier this year.
It showed the Lake District’s enduring popularity and traditional beauty is still delighting us more than 60 years after the country’s largest national park was set up in 1951.
Among the responses from Sun Travel readers was: “Rain or shine, it doesn’t matter. The area is beautiful whatever the weather.”
“A magical place where you can lose yourself in the most beautiful and tranquil surroundings,” said another Bucketlist voter.
And one added: “We could stay there for a year and not be disappointed.”
Sun Online Travel previously revealed that holidaymakers can rent out a whole row of cottages in the Lake District for £20 per head.
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