Place Fell and Ullswater
Place Fell rises alone, a hub-like point at the centre of a great arc of mountains running from Helvellyn and the Dodds to the High Street range.
Difficult Hiking
- Distance
- 12 km
- Ascent
- 629 m
- Descent
- 679 m
England's largest National Park is now a World Heritage Site, home to Scafell Pike - its highest mountain, Wastwater - its deepest lake and thriving communities like Keswick and Bowness-on-Windermere.
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Place Fell rises alone, a hub-like point at the centre of a great arc of mountains running from Helvellyn and the Dodds to the High Street range.
Difficult Hiking
A short family-friendly walk from Grasmere's Town Head, taking in a beautiful valley and an easy ridge to a classic Lakeland micro-summit, which feels much higher than its on-paper altitude suggests.
Moderate Hiking
Climb several notable Lake District Peaks in one day: Yewbarrow, Red Pike, Scoat Fell and Pillar.
Extreme Hiking
This round which tackles the hills enclosing secretive Gasgale Gill is perfect for a shorter day, and after an inauspicious start rewards baggers with three Wainwrights building to a fine climax with a traverse of one of the best walker’s ridges in the entire national park.
Difficult Hiking
Taking in the major fells that ring the head of Eskdale, this round includes many of the highest, most interesting and most popular peaks in England, allowing the walker to fully enjoy this wonderful corner of the Lake District.
Severe Hiking
This northernmost summit of the Blencathra range has a hidden scenic corner, the high glacial bowl of Bowscale Tarn.
Moderate Hiking
This Cumbrian crowd-pleaser is an oldie, but a goodie.
Severe Hiking
People have walked High Street for thousands of years, and they'll probably be doing so for generations to come.
Difficult Hiking
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
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
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
The easiest of the legs of the Bob Graham Round with half the distance being on roads.
Difficult Hiking
An excellent walk taking in an unusual combination of hills, and full of interest all the way.
Moderate Hiking
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
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
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