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The walks of the Lake District

By Lee McCoy. Updated 31 August 2026.

Every line here is a walk somebody actually did. They are not suggested ways between two summits — each one is drawn from the GPX track recorded on the day, thinned just enough to draw, and coloured by how long it is.

The 185 routes by length
Band	Walks	Roughly
Easy	41	under about 8 km
Moderate	73	a half-day on the fell
Hard	49	a long day, or a big round
Severe	22	the longest we hold

How it is drawn

Every line is a recorded track. They come from the same GPX files the route pages publish, thinned to about 84 points each so the whole library can be drawn at once — 50 MB of track into roughly 300 KB.
The colour is our own length rating, the same Easy / Moderate / Hard / Severe you see on a route page, not a scale invented for this map.
The boundary and lakes are OpenStreetMap outlines under the Open Database Licence, the same shapes the rest of our maps use.

What we don’t claim

This is not a navigation map and not a rights-of-way map. A line here means one walk went that way once; it is not a claim that a path exists, is open, or that you may use it. Take OS Explorer OL4–OL7 onto the hill.
It is not every walk in the Lake District — it is every walk we hold. Blank ground means we have not recorded one there, nothing more.
Length is not difficulty. A short route can be the harder day; the route pages carry steepness, terrain, navigation and exposure separately.

The rest of our maps are on the maps page — which fells a bus reaches, all 544 tops by height, the ground in relief, and where the right to roam applies.

By Lee McCoy. Updated 31 August 2026.