In this guide
At a glance
- Vibe
- Loud, crowded and unapologetically itself
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Best day
- Weekday mornings for room to move; weekends for the full experience
- Travel zone
- 2
- Walkability
- 4/5
- Typical spend
- £
Best for
Nearest stations
- Camden TownNorthern
- Chalk FarmNorthern
- Camden RoadLondon Overground
Camden built its reputation on markets and music, and it still trades on both. What began as a craft market by the canal lock in 1974 now sprawls across five separate markets and draws around 250,000 people a week.
It is not subtle, and it is not for everyone. But the canal, Primrose Hill fifteen minutes north-west, and the surviving music venues make it more than the T-shirt stalls suggest.
Camden has its own share of the commemorative plaques marking where notable people lived or worked - see them on our interactive map.
Why visit — and who should skip it
Come here if you want street food, vintage, or live music, or you want to walk the Regent’s Canal. The food at Camden Lock is genuinely good and genuinely cheap — dozens of traders, most under £10.
Skip it if crowds bother you. Camden on a Sunday afternoon is among the most congested places in London — crowded enough that the Tube station ran exit-only for years to cope. If you want the market without the crush, come on a weekday morning.
Top sights and activities
- Camden Lock Market — The original, beside the lock itself. Craft stalls and the best of the street food, with terraced seating above the water.
- Stables Market — The largest, running back into the tunnels and vaults of a Victorian horse hospital. Vintage clothing, antiques and furniture, plus the bronze horse statues.
- Camden Lock and the Regent’s Canal — The lock still operates. The towpath runs east to King’s Cross in 30 minutes and west to Little Venice in about 50.
- Primrose Hill — Fifteen minutes north-west. A free panorama of the entire central skyline, with a naming plaque at the summit. The village below it has the pastel terraces of Chalcot Crescent, used as the Browns’ house in the Paddington films.
- The Roundhouse — A former railway engine shed turned venue, where Pink Floyd, Hendrix and The Doors all played. Still a working music and theatre space.
- The Electric Ballroom and the Dublin Castle — Two surviving live venues. The Dublin Castle is small, sticky and where Madness and Blur played early sets.
- Regent’s Park and London Zoo — Fifteen minutes south-west along the canal, with the zoo’s landmark Snowdon Aviary structure visible from the towpath. It no longer holds birds - it was reimagined as Monkey Valley and now houses the zoo’s monkeys.
The towpath heading toward the zoo. This is the old Snowdon Aviary frame, built in 1965 - now home to the zoo’s monkeys rather than its birds.
Key streets and micro-districts
Camden Lock and the canal
The centre of it, and the part worth arriving early for. Camden Market opens 10am to 7pm daily, including bank holidays, and the cobbled lanes between the lock and the railway arches are close to impassable by early afternoon at a weekend. Before eleven on a weekday you can actually see what the stalls are selling.
The food is the main event now rather than the clothing — around a hundred street food counters across the lock and Hawley Wharf, from Cuban to Korean to Argentinian, most plates £8 to £12. Hawley Wharf’s food halls run 11.30am to 11pm, considerably later than the market itself, so the lock empties in the evening while the restaurants beside it fill.
The canal is the best way out. The London Waterbus runs from beside the lock to Little Venice in 45 minutes — £17 adult, £14 child, under-4s free — through Regent’s Park, the grounds of London Zoo and the 248-metre Maida Hill tunnel. Boarding closes five minutes before departure. Walking the towpath the same way is free and takes about an hour.
Camden Lock. The boat on the right is a London Waterbus service — it runs from here to Little Venice, through Regent’s Park and the London Zoo grounds.
Hawley Wharf, the redevelopment beside Camden Lock. It opened in 2021 on the site of the old Canal Market, after a fire had closed it for years.
Camden Lock Place, between the market and Hawley Wharf. The glass pods are outdoor seating for the restaurants either side.
Stables Market and Chalk Farm Road
North past the railway bridge, and the part of Camden actually worth slowing down for. The Stables are the Victorian horse hospital and tunnels built for the animals that hauled canal barges, now cut through with railway arches full of dealers — vintage clothing, furniture, militaria, records. Expect £15 to £60 for a decent vintage piece, more for branded denim or leather.
Go on a weekday if you want to look at anything properly. The arches are narrow, the good stalls are the ones people stop at, and on a Saturday you shuffle.
Opposite stands the Roundhouse, built in 1847 as an engine shed to turn locomotives and now one of London’s better music venues — the cast-iron columns inside are the originals. Worth checking what is on before you come, since the building alone justifies a ticket. It is covered in full in our live music guide.
The vintage dealers under the arches in Stables Market. This is the part of Camden worth going slowly through.
Inside the Roundhouse. It was built in 1847 to turn locomotives, and the cast-iron columns are the originals.
Camden High Street
From the Tube station north. The loudest and least interesting part — chain shops, tattoo studios and the oversized shop-front sculptures.
The High Street sculptures. They date from the 1980s, when shops competed to be findable in a crowd — the dragon and the boot are the two everybody photographs.
Two things on this stretch are worth stopping for. Cyberdog, under the Stables, is a cybergoth and rave clothing shop built like a nightclub — neon, a DJ booth and staff dancing on podiums. It has been there since 1994 and there is nothing else like it in Britain.
Cyberdog. Free to walk into, and worth it whether or not you would ever wear any of it.
BOXPARK Camden on the High Street is the newer container development — street food counters, bars and a roof terrace.
BOXPARK Camden. Sushidog and a run of other counters downstairs, with a roof terrace above.
Inverness Street and Parkway
West of the High Street, and where Camden stops performing at you. Inverness Street was a working fruit and veg market for a century and is now much reduced — a handful of stalls rather than the row it was — but the street itself is lined with pubs and small restaurants that serve locals rather than the market crowd.
Parkway is the one to walk. It runs from the Tube down toward Regent’s Park, and the eating is materially better and cheaper than anything you will find fifty metres east: proper neighbourhood Greek, Italian and Indian rooms, plus The Dublin Castle, the pub where Madness got their start and still a small live venue most nights.
This is where to eat if the market has worn you out — five minutes from the crowds, and you will get a table.
Primrose Hill village
North-west across the railway, and a different world within ten minutes’ walk — pastel stucco terraces, independent shops along Regent’s Park Road, and pubs that fill with people who live here rather than people visiting.
The hill itself is the reason to come. It rises to about 63 metres and the summit is one of London’s protected viewpoints, which is a legal designation: the trees are kept low and nothing may be built that blocks the sightline to St Paul’s and the City. It is free, always open, and one of the best skyline views in the city — busiest at sunset, and on New Year’s Eve genuinely packed.
Chalcot Crescent stood in for the Brown family’s house in the Paddington films. These are private homes, so photograph from the pavement and keep the noise down.
Chalcot Crescent, Primrose Hill. The Browns’ house in the Paddington films is on this curve — these are private homes, so photograph from the pavement.
Where to eat and drink
| Spot | Style | Price | Why go |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camden Lock food stalls | Global street food | £ | Dozens of traders, most under £10; eat on the canal terraces |
| Poppies | Fish and chips | ££ | A 1950s-styled chippy on Hawley Crescent, and the best-known name in Camden for it |
| Hook Camden Town | Fish and chips | ££ | Sustainable, freshly battered, on Parkway |
| BOXPARK Camden | Street food hall | £ | Containers on the High Street — counters, bars and a roof terrace |
| The Dublin Castle | Music pub | £ | Small back room with a genuine claim on Britpop history |
| Namaaste Kitchen | Indian grill | ££ | Parkway; a step up from the market food |
| The Lansdowne | Gastropub | ££ | Primrose Hill; where locals go to escape the market |
| Chin Chin Labs | Ice cream | £ | Liquid-nitrogen ice cream made in front of you |
See all 11 places to eat and drink in Camden
Canal boat trips from Camden
Five different operators run from Camden Lock, and they are genuinely different trips rather than the same ride at different prices. All of them use the same stretch of the Regent’s Canal — through Regent’s Park and the grounds of London Zoo, where the painted wolves and the colobus monkeys are visible from the water, and in most cases through the Maida Hill tunnel, a little over 240 metres long, which has no towpath and is worth the ticket on its own.
| Trip | Route | How long | From | What makes it different |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London Waterbus | Camden ↔ Little Venice | ~45 min each way | £17 adult, £14 child | Pick the historic narrowboat, which is guided and has forward-facing seats, or the Comfort Cruiser barge, which has booth seating, tables and a licensed bar |
| Jason’s Trip | Little Venice ↔ Camden | ~45 min | £19 single, £25 return | Running since 1951 — the original Regent’s Canal tour — on a canal boat built in 1906 |
| Jenny Wren | Camden → Little Venice → back | ~90 min round trip | Phone to book | Guided the whole way, and the only one that works a lock while you are aboard. Ends where it started, so no walk back |
| My Fair Lady | Regent’s Canal | An evening, a Sunday lunch or afternoon tea | Phone to book | A restaurant boat — fully enclosed and heated, three courses cooked in a galley on board |
| The Music Boat | Camden loop | ~45 min | £16.25 | A punt with live musicians aboard, from Camden Lock from 11am. Passes the Pirate Castle and St Mark’s Church |
The Music Boat. It is a punt rather than a narrowboat, so it is open to the weather and much closer to the water than the waterbus.
Which to pick. For getting somewhere, the Waterbus or Jason’s Trip — both are one-way journeys that happen to be scenic. For a round trip with no walk back, Jenny Wren, which also takes you through a working lock. For an evening out rather than a sightseeing trip, My Fair Lady. The Music Boat is the one people remember, and the one to avoid in bad weather.
⚠️ None of them stop at London Zoo. The route runs through the zoo’s grounds and you can see the painted wolves and colobus monkeys from the water, but there is no zoo landing — the old combined boat-and-zoo ticket is long gone, and plenty of guides still say otherwise. The nearest stop is Camden Market, about fifteen minutes’ walk from the entrance.
⚠️ Timetables are seasonal and several of these run a reduced winter service or stop entirely. Check before travelling for a specific boat, and note that one-way tickets mean walking or taking the Tube back.
Getting there
By Tube. Camden Town (Northern) is the obvious choice, but it is severely congested at weekends. For years it ran exit-only on Sunday afternoons; that was lifted in 2019, so you can board there again, but queues to enter still build badly. Chalk Farm one stop north is the better approach, and it puts you at the Stables Market end.
By Overground. Camden Road is a five-minute walk east and far less crowded.
By canal. The towpath from King’s Cross takes 30 minutes on foot. The narrowboat waterbus from Little Venice takes about 45 minutes — see canal boat trips above for which service is which.
Best approach. Arrive at Chalk Farm and walk south through Stables Market to the Lock. You start at the good end and finish near the station.
How long to spend, and when to go
| If you have | Do this |
|---|---|
| Two hours | Camden Lock, Stables Market and lunch on the canal |
| Half a day | Add Primrose Hill and the walk back along the towpath |
| A full day | Walk the canal to King’s Cross, or take the waterbus to Little Venice |
Best time: Weekday mornings. Same markets, a fraction of the people.
Avoid: Sunday afternoon, the single busiest period, when queues build just to get into Camden Town station.
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What's on in Camden
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Frieze London and Frieze Sculpture
Not open yetThe ticketed fair gets the coverage, but Frieze Sculpture is the half guides miss - six weeks of large-scale outdoor work in the English Gardens, free, no ticket. The fair itself runs 15-18 October 2026.
Dates span the free sculpture run; the fair is 14 October (invitation preview) then public 15-18 October. Fair pricing unverified for 2026 - check before quoting.
Camden Fringe
Not open yetThe same density of new stand-up and theatre as Edinburgh every August, without the flight or the hotel prices - performers use it to preview the material they take north. Over 400 shows in 2025.
Programme publishes in early summer at camdenfringe.com. Most venues are pub theatres under 60 seats, so book the buzzy shows.
Taste of London
Not open yetDozens of real London restaurants serve small plates of their actual menus, so it works as a tasting flight of places you would otherwise book one by one. Friday sessions have historically had free children's entry.
Entry ticket plus pay-as-you-eat inside. 2025 ran 18-22 June; 2026-27 dates unverified when checked.
Things to do in Camden
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Babylon Park
FreeThree underground storeys of rides in Camden, including the only indoor rollercoaster in London - plus bumper cars, a carousel, VR and a full arcade, all on a space theme.
ENTRY IS FREE - you only pay for rides, either with an unlimited wristband or by loading Babylon coins and paying per go, which is much cheaper for a short visit. Open 10:00-21:00 daily, to 22:00 on Saturday. Underground across three floors, so step-free access is limited; check with the venue if that matters.
Camden Market
FreeCamden Lock, the Stables and Hawley Wharf run together into the best-known collection of street vendors in Britain - vintage, records, band merch and several hundred food stalls.
Free to walk in and the busiest thing in Camden. Weekends are shoulder-to-shoulder by midday; a weekday morning is a genuinely different experience.
Primrose Hill
FreeA ten-minute walk from Camden Market to one of London's legally protected views - the whole central skyline laid out from a grass slope, for nothing.
Free and open all the time. The summit path is a genuine climb; the north-eastern approach from Regent's Park Road is the gentler one.
Colosseum: The Legendary Arena
A headset reconstruction of the Colosseum as it stood, walked rather than watched, in a Camden venue that also runs the ISS experience.
Headset-based, so it does not suit anyone prone to motion sickness. Book a slot.
Gorilla Circus Flying Trapeze School
Summer onlyA full-size flying trapeze rig standing in Regent's Park all summer, teaching complete beginners to climb the ladder, swing out and be caught - in one two-hour lesson.
Level 1 classes need no experience and take anyone from age 8 up. Classes are released in four-week blocks about a month ahead and sell out fast, so the release date matters more than booking early in the day. 2026 season runs 3 April to 27 September.
Jazz Cafe
18+ in the eveningLive acts every night of the week across a far wider range than the name suggests, with a balcony you can book a table on and eat while you watch.
The balcony dinner tables are the thing worth knowing - book those rather than standing downstairs if you want to sit.
KOKO
18+ in the eveningA gilded Victorian theatre with tiered balconies, reopened after a fire and a long restoration - one of the few London venues where the room outshines most of the bills.
Club nights are over-18. The upper balconies give a far better view than the floor and people routinely miss that they can go up.
Mission: Breakout
Built inside the abandoned South Kentish Town Underground station - the room is a real disused Tube station, which no amount of set dressing anywhere else can match.
The venue is the attraction. Book ahead; the station rooms sell out well before the ordinary ones.
Plonk Crazy Golf Camden
18+ in the eveningNine holes crammed into a railway arch in the Stables Market, played under colour-changing lights with the music up.
Children from about age 7, but UNDER-18s ONLY BEFORE 5PM ON WEEKDAYS - so an after-school or weekend family visit does not work. Book for Saturdays.
Space Explorers: The ISS Experience
Free-roaming VR filmed aboard the actual International Space Station, so you walk the modules rather than sitting in a chair looking around.
Free-roam means you move through a real room in a headset - more physical than seated VR, and better for it.
The Roundhouse
A circular Victorian railway turning shed turned concert hall, and a charity that puts a serious amount of its programme into work with young people.
The round room is the reason to pick a gig here over anywhere else in London. Standing capacity, so check whether a seated ticket exists if that matters.
ZSL London Zoo
Opened in 1828 as the world's first scientific zoo, and the listed Victorian and modernist buildings are as much of the visit as the animals.
Book online in advance - walk-up is materially more expensive. Allow half a day; people routinely underestimate the site.
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Hidden Camden
Free, self-guided and easy to walk past without knowing it's there.
30 Camden Square
MusicAmy Winehouse's last home, where she died in July 2011
The house Winehouse was living in when she died on 23 July 2011. It drew a wall of flowers and messages in the weeks afterwards and is still listed on most Amy Winehouse trails.
We would think twice. It is a private house with somebody else living in it, there is no plaque and nothing to see, and the flowers went years ago. The statue in the Stables Market and the Hawley Arms are the places actually built for remembering her - this is just an address on a quiet residential square.
Amy Winehouse's 'Fallen Angel' Mural
Street artPegasus's tribute on the canalside information centre
A mural of Winehouse as a winged angel by the street artist Pegasus, on the side of the canalside visitor information centre. The wall became an unofficial shrine in the days after her death in 2011, and the piece was formally reopened by her mother Janis in December 2013.
It has been whitewashed and repainted at least once already, and we could not confirm its condition for 2026 - check a recent photograph before making a special trip for it. Free and outdoors, right by the lock.
Banksy's Gorilla (original REMOVED, replica in place)
Street artDay nine of the August 2024 animal series - the finale, a gorilla lifting the zoo's shutter
The finale of the nine-day series - a gorilla appearing to lift the zoo's roller shutter to free a sea lion and several birds, on the actual entrance gate of London Zoo.
The ORIGINAL was removed by the zoo for safekeeping once crowds became unmanageable. A replica now stands in its place with a nearby sign reading "Banksy woz ere" and an apology to disappointed fans. Seeing the replica requires paid admission to London Zoo - it is no longer a free street piece.
Camden Lock
Filming locationSpectre (2015) - the entrance to MI6's temporary headquarters
The working canal lock dressed as the covert river entrance to MI6's new home. In reality it is the busiest few square metres in Camden, with a market either side of it.
Free, open at all hours, though the market around it keeps daytime hours. Two minutes from Camden Town station and unavoidable if you are visiting the market anyway.
Chalcot Square
Filming locationPaddington 2 (2017) - Phoenix Buchanan's house
The pastel terrace used for the home of Hugh Grant's washed-up actor. The same square supplied the Brown family's Windsor Gardens exterior in the first film, on the opposite side.
A residential garden square, free to walk around, always open. Chalk Farm, five minutes, and Primrose Hill itself is two streets away.
Friedrich Engels's Primrose Hill Home
Blue plaqueFriedrich Engels (1820–1895), philosopher and political theorist
Engels lived here for over 20 years, hosting Karl Marx regularly - a plaque for one half of one of history's most consequential intellectual partnerships.
A private residential building - viewable from the street only.
George Orwell's Kentish Town Home
Blue plaqueGeorge Orwell (1903–1950), writer
One of several Orwell addresses across London - Kentish Town's plaque marks a working writer's home rather than a grand literary residence.
A private residential building - viewable from the street only.
London Zoo's Reptile House
Filming locationHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) - Harry talks to the boa constrictor
The scene where Harry discovers he can speak to snakes and Dudley ends up behind the glass. The 1927 Reptile House is still in use and still recognisable.
Inside the zoo, so it needs a paid ticket - and the zoo is one of the more expensive attractions in London. Not worth the admission for the scene alone.
Paddington's Brown Family Home
Filming locationPaddington (2014/2017) - 32 Windsor Gardens exterior
The fictional "32 Windsor Gardens" was actually filmed on this pastel-painted Primrose Hill crescent - one of the most Instagrammed residential streets in London even without the film connection.
A private residential street - viewable from the street only, and popular enough that being considerate of residents matters.
Sylvia Plath's Primrose Hill Home
Blue plaqueSylvia Plath (1932–1963), poet
Plath and Ted Hughes lived here early in their marriage - one of the more poignant plaques on the map, a short walk from Primrose Hill itself.
A private residential building - viewable from the street only.
The Amy Winehouse Statue
MusicAmy Winehouse (1983-2011), in the market she lived beside and sang about
A life-size bronze by Scott Eaton, unveiled on 14 September 2014 - what would have been her 31st birthday - standing in the Stables Market a few minutes from where she lived. She is in the beehive and the winged eyeliner, with a Star of David at her throat, and the plinth carries the line 'Love is a losing game'.
Free, outdoors and always accessible, in the Stables Market end of Camden rather than by the lock - walk north past the railway bridge. Fans leave flowers, notes and lipstick marks on it, particularly around her birthday in September and the anniversary of her death in July.
The Dublin Castle
MusicThe small back room where Madness, Blur and Amy Winehouse all played
A back room the size of a living room with a genuine claim on British music - Madness effectively started here, Blur played early sets, and Amy Winehouse both performed and worked behind the bar. Still a working music pub putting on new bands most nights.
Free or a few pounds on the door depending on the night. Small enough that arriving late means standing in the corridor.
The Hawley Arms
MusicAmy Winehouse's Camden local - she worked behind the bar and kept coming back
The Victorian pub just off the market where Amy Winehouse pulled pints - first as staff, later as a regular who would hop back behind the bar for the sake of it. She stayed loyal to it after fame arrived, drinking and playing pool here, and helped raise the money to reopen it after the February 2008 Camden Lock fire gutted the building.
A working pub, not a shrine - it does not trade on her and there is no memorial inside. Also the 2000s haunt of Kate Moss, Noel Fielding and most of the indie scene. Her drink here was the 'Rickstasy': three parts vodka to one each of banana liqueur, Southern Comfort and Baileys.
Where to stay
Cheap by central standards, well connected on the Northern line, and noisy near the market.
- Camden Town — Hostels and budget hotels. Convenient, lively and loud at night.
- Primrose Hill — Fifteen minutes north-west, considerably quieter and more expensive.
- King’s Cross — Thirty minutes along the canal, with far better transport connections.
Make a day of it
Combine Camden with
Walking times are from the centre of Camden. Each of these works as an afternoon once you have finished here.
King's Cross
30 min walkEast along the Regent's Canal towpath — flat, traffic-free and better than the Tube.
Regent's Park and London Zoo
15 min walkSouth-west for the park, the boating lake and the zoo's canal-side Snowdon Aviary structure - now Monkey Valley.
Islington
25 min walkEast for Upper Street's restaurants and the Camden Passage antique shops.
Paddington
50 min walkWest along the canal to Little Venice, or take the waterbus instead of walking.
Suggested three-hour route
- Start: Chalk Farm station, not Camden Town.
- Stables Market: South into the horse hospital tunnels and the vintage dealers.
- Camden Lock: Down to the water for street food on the terraces.
- The towpath: West along the Regent’s Canal past the zoo’s old aviary structure.
- Primrose Hill: Up for the skyline panorama.
- Finish: A pub in Primrose Hill village, or back down for the Northern line.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Arriving at Camden Town station on a Sunday afternoon. You can board there — the old exit-only rule ended in 2019 — but the queues are grim. Use Chalk Farm.
- Walking north up the High Street and stopping there. The good part is past the bridge at the Lock and Stables.
- Eating on the High Street. The canal-side food stalls are cheaper and much better.
- Missing Primrose Hill. Fifteen minutes away, free, and the best view in north London.
- Not watching your pockets. Dense crowds make this a known spot for pickpockets.
- Taking the Tube to King’s Cross. The canal walk is 30 minutes and far more pleasant.
Common questions
How many markets are there in Camden?
Effectively five, running into each other along the same half-mile. Camden Lock Market is the original by the canal; Stables Market is the largest, in the old horse hospital tunnels; Camden Lock Village sits opposite; Boxpark Camden is the covered container market by the station, on the old Buck Street Market site; and Inverness Street is a small street market. Most people walk all of them without realising they have crossed between four owners.
What days is Camden Market open?
Every day, roughly 10:00 to 18:00. Unlike most London markets it does not depend on the weekend — though Saturday and Sunday are considerably busier, and some stalls only trade then. A weekday morning gets you the same market with room to move.
Can you take a boat from Camden to Little Venice?
Yes. Narrowboat waterbuses run along the Regent's Canal from Camden Lock to Little Venice through Regent's Park and the London Zoo grounds, taking about 45 minutes. They do not stop at the zoo — the nearest stop is Camden Market, about fifteen minutes' walk from the entrance. Services are frequent in summer and much reduced in winter.
Is Primrose Hill worth the walk?
Yes. It is fifteen minutes north-west of Camden Lock and the view from the top is one of the best free panoramas in London — the whole central skyline laid out, with a plaque naming the buildings. It is a proper hill, so allow for the climb.
Where was the Paddington film house?
Chalcot Crescent in Primrose Hill, about fifteen minutes north-west of Camden Lock. The address in the books and films is 32 Windsor Gardens, which is fictional — the curving terrace of pastel houses used for the exterior is on Chalcot Crescent. They are private homes on an ordinary residential street, so photograph from the pavement and keep off the steps.
Is Camden safe?
Yes, though it is very crowded and pickpocketing around the market and Camden Town station is a real risk. Camden Town station used to run exit-only on Sunday afternoons to manage the crush; that restriction was lifted in 2019, but the crowding it existed to control has not gone away. Keep your phone and bag secure, and be aware that the area around the station gets rowdy late at night.
