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The walks of the Lake District

By Lee McCoy. Updated 31 August 2026. · 171 of 214 Wainwrights with a Strava-matched summit

Every line here is one of our mapped routes, drawn from the same GPX line its route page publishes, thinned just enough to draw, and coloured by how long it is. Some are walks Lee has done; others are planned from the map, and each route page says which.

Colour is length, not difficulty. Blencathra by Sharp Edge is 7 km, so it draws in the shortest colour; the route itself is graded Severe, over a Grade 1 scramble on a narrow arête. Open the route before you judge a line by its colour.

The map

How it is drawn

• Every line is a mapped route. 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 distance, and only distance. It is the site’s own length axis from the route pages, shown here as the kilometres it measures rather than as a word — because the same words grade steepness, terrain, navigation and exposure on those pages, and a route can be Easy for length and Severe for everything else.
• 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 of our routes goes that way; 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 mapped 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.