Overwhelming popularity cannot diminish the spectacular class of England’s finest ridge walking horseshoe, a circuit of the chiseled crests cupping the Red Tarn cove.
Severe Hiking
- Distance
- 17 km
- Ascent
- 876 m
- Descent
- 1.4 km
This classic route has it all and is justly popular but don’t let the crowds put you off; wait until later in the day and there’s a good chance you’ll have it to yourself!
Extreme Hiking
- Distance
- 7.5 km
- Ascent
- 714 m
- Descent
- 718 m
This celebrated round packs a lot into its ten and a half miles, giving easy striding and ever-improving vistas culminating on one of the best-loved peaks in Lakeland.
Difficult Hiking
- Distance
- 17 km
- Ascent
- 1 km
- Descent
- 1 km
The easiest of the legs of the Bob Graham Round with half the distance being on roads.
Difficult Hiking
- Distance
- 17 km
- Ascent
- 719 m
- Descent
- 994 m
An excellent walk taking in an unusual combination of hills, and full of interest all the way.
Moderate Hiking
- Distance
- 5.4 km
- Ascent
- 810 m
- Descent
- 194 m
For one of the best short routes in the north Lakes combine the charismatic mini mountain Cat Bells with a ramble along the wooded west side of Derwentwater - perhaps the most picturesque shoreline in England.
Moderate Hiking
- Distance
- 7.3 km
- Ascent
- 439 m
- Descent
- 440 m
This stern, stony mountain sprawls over a large area, its many impressive corners offering some of the grandest mountain scenery in the Lake District.
Difficult Hiking
- Distance
- 13 km
- Ascent
- 931 m
- Descent
- 969 m
The second half of this route takes in much of the roughest ground in the Lake District and you need the fell craft of a goat to keep up a good pace.
Extreme Hiking
- Distance
- 27 km
- Ascent
- 1.9 km
- Descent
- 2.1 km
Wrynose Pass - Great Carrs - Swirl How - Prison Band - Wetherlam - Brim Fell - Grey Friars - Wrynose Pass
Difficult Hiking
- Distance
- 15 km
- Ascent
- 1 km
- Descent
- 1 km
River Caldew - Wiley Gill - Great Calva - Knott - Great Lingy Hut - High Pike - Carrock Fell - Drygill Head - Great Lingy Hut - Arm P' Grain - Carrock Wolframite Mine - Grainsgill Beck - River Caldew
Difficult Hiking
- Distance
- 20 km
- Ascent
- 831 m
- Descent
- 831 m
Cat Bells - Maiden Moor - High Spy - Dale Head - Hindscarth
Moderate Hiking
- Distance
- 17 km
- Ascent
- 993 m
- Descent
- 992 m
Swirls - Helvellyn - Lower Man - White Side - Swirls
Moderate Hiking
- Distance
- 9.7 km
- Ascent
- 836 m
- Descent
- 836 m
Whinlatter Pass - Hopegill Head - Whiteside - Hobcarton Crag - Grisedale Pike - Hobcarton End - Whinlatter Pass
Moderate Hiking
- Distance
- 14 km
- Ascent
- 852 m
- Descent
- 852 m
Five Wainwrights from Martindale or Mellguards. 14.2km
Moderate Hiking
- Distance
- 14 km
- Ascent
- 690 m
- Descent
- 689 m
Sedbergh - Settlebeck Gill - Winder - Arant Haw - The Calf - Force Gill Beck - Causey Spout - Causey Holme Beck - Sedbergh
Moderate Hiking
- Distance
- 17 km
- Ascent
- 781 m
- Descent
- 781 m
Walna Scar - Levers Water - Prison Band - Swirl How - Brim Fell - Old Man - Dow Crag - Buck Pike - Brown Pike - Banishead Quarry - Walna Scar
Moderate Hiking
- Distance
- 16 km
- Ascent
- 954 m
- Descent
- 953 m