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Allen Crags at 785m (2,575ft) sits above Esk Hause between the paths to Glaramara and Great End. Its views run east over Langstrath and on to the Helvellyn range.

Summit conditions on Allen Crags

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 10° to 4°C, gusts to 68 mph, 10.6 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Against our lines, Tuesday 27 October: wind, cold and cloud from the Met Office UKV 2 km model (daylight hours, as in the verdict above); rain from the summit line’s forecast (the whole day). A tile is large when this top is past its line.

Wind on the top

Past the line

74 mph, our estimate for the open top in the worst daylight hour

The Met Office 2 km model’s gust of 58 mph times our exposure factor of 1.26. The summit line above gives Open-Meteo’s highest gust for the whole day, 68 mph, before any exposure factor.

The line Our line: 25 mph, where our wind Scale begins its 25–35 band: “balance affected; buffeting on exposed ground”. MWIS (opens in new tab) describes what wind does to a walker across a range rather than at a line: from about 20–25 mph it starts to affect your balance.

Estimated: it is not calibrated against summit readings, and the two forecasts can disagree by more than a band.

Cloud on the top

Past the line

9 out of 100, the clear-top reading

Averaged over the daylight hours, from the forecast’s humidity and low cloud.

The line Our line: a clear-top reading under 20 out of 100, where our scorer says “summit likely clagged in”. There is no outside threshold to cite; it is our estimate. What cloud does to finding the way: navigating in cloud.

Not an observation: cloud lifts and drops within the hour.

Rain, and the becks

Past the line

10.6 mm of rain over the whole day, midnight to midnight

The same figure as the summit line above and the 7-day forecast.

The line Our line: 6 mm in the day, where our scorer counts a day as soaking. We read rainfall, never river levels: becks in spate.

Open-Meteo’s forecast. It says nothing about rain already in the ground.

Also checked cold: feels like −2 °C, no ice or snow forecast. Under a line is not the same as fine: it means only that these figures are under the lines we use.

Not in these tiles Lightning, river levels, snow or ice already lying, and the ground under your feet. A tile cannot see them, so an empty space here never means they are absent.

Snow figures with a second opinion: Powered by Met Office data

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

Wainwrights are scored for walking conditions each morning from the Met Office’s UK forecast model, read for each summit through Open-Meteo; the forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Routes up Allen Crags

Choose the way up before the car park: these three routes start from two places, and the last two rows give the parking and bus at each route’s own start. Full maps further down.

Compared	Allen Crags & Glaramara	Glaramara, Allen Crags via Stockley Bridge	Rossett Pike, Allen Crags, Great End and more
Starts from	Seathwaite Farm	Seathwaite Farm	Great Langdale (New/Old Dungeon Ghyll)
Distance and climb	10.94 km, 853 m of climb	9.74 km, 826 m of climb	17.95 km, 1,212 m of climb
Time, fast to steady	~3½–5 h	~3¼–4½ h	~5½–7½ h
Scrambling	Hands for a few steps: between Red Beck Top and Glaramara's top, and the 3 m step at the start of the descent (km 6.9–7.9). Make the final short traverse north from Looking Steads, dipping into a shallow, stony hollow, then scramble up to the twin rocky crowns of Glaramara.	Hands for a few steps: between Glaramara's top and Red Beck Top (km 2.9–4.0).	Hands for a few steps: the boulders up Great End and the slabs up Bowfell (km 7.6–9.4 and km 11.3–12.8). The path largely breaks up into boulders and shattered scree, and the climb is a rough, high-stepping scramble through the rocks to the broad, surprisingly flat summit plateau.
Exposure	Moderate	Not assessed	Not assessed
Navigation	Moderate	Hard	Moderate
Steepest stretch	Descent of about 49% at 9.5 km (Severe)	Climb of about 50% at 1.4 km (Severe)	Descent of about 34% at 16.1 km (Hard)
After the summit	Over High House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags), Red Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara), Looking Steads (Glaramara) and Glaramara	No further tops	Over Great End, Esk Pike and Bowfell
Walked or planned	Planned: drawn, not yet walked	Planned: drawn, not yet walked	Planned: drawn, not yet walked
Car park at the start	Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge)	Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge)	Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid)
Bus to the start	78, 2.2 km walk from Seatoller, at National Trust car park. The 77 runs until 1 November 2026, the last day of its season.	78, 2.1 km walk from Seatoller, at National Trust car park. The 77 runs until 1 November 2026, the last day of its season.	516 at the start

Times run from fast to steady pace (Naismith’s rule). Scrambling quotes each route’s own notes; “not mentioned” means they do not say, not that the ground has none. Each route’s page has its map, stages and GPX.

Distance, climb and the steepest stretch are measured from each route’s GPX track; the other grades are set on the ground, judged from the map or estimated from OpenStreetMap, and each route page says which. How we check →

Is Allen Crags hard?

The fell itself is a rocky top with an easy approach along the ridge and nothing technical on it. Its seriousness is entirely about where it stands: right beside Esk Hause, the great crossroads where the paths between Wasdale, Borrowdale, Langdale and the Scafells meet, and one of the easiest places in the district to leave on the wrong path in cloud.

Our shorter round with Glaramara is 10.9 km with 853 m of ascent; with Rossett Pike and Great End it is 17.7 km and 1176 m. Know which way you are leaving the Hause before you get there.

How we check →

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 785 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast

Tue 27 Oct

10° / 4°

68 mph

10.6 mm (100%)

Wed 28 Oct

8° / 4°

50 mph

11.9 mm (100%)

Thu 29 Oct

8° / 6°

29 mph

1.8 mm (26%)

Fri 30 Oct

7° / 5°

27 mph

0.1 mm (31%)

Sat 31 Oct

9° / 0°

9 mph

0.0 mm (25%)

Sun 1 Nov

7° / 0°

7 mph

0.0 mm (12%)

Mon 2 Nov

6° / 0°

19 mph

0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 08:13 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

Parking & buses for Allen Crags

Parking

Route starts first, then the car parks nearest the summit, which are not always a way up.

Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge) — at the start of Allen Crags & Glaramara and Glaramara, Allen Crags via Stockley Bridge

Free verge parking on the Seathwaite lane — the honeypot start for the Scafells, Great Gable and Glaramara. It fills early; the farm’s own field just down the lane takes the pressure off, and the lane needs to stay clear for residents, farm traffic and emergency vehicles.

Typically full before 09:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 9 August 2026.

Directions Something changed here?

If it is full: Honister Pass (paid, slate mine) (1.8 km); Seatoller (NT, paid) (2.0 km); Rosthwaite (NT, paid) (3.8 km)

Public toilets (~188 m straight line) — Free

Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 0.1 km from the start of Rossett Pike, Allen Crags, Great End and more (straight line)

Head of Great Langdale — Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco, the Langdale Pikes. Free for NT members (checked August 2026).

Typically full before 10:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 9 August 2026.

Directions Something changed here?

If it is full: Stickle Ghyll (NT, paid) (1.0 km, 24 m up); Great Langdale, valley road verge (free) (0.8 km) a few spaces only; Side Pike (verge) (0.8 km) a few spaces only

Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel Sticklebarn

Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (farm field, paid) — 3.7 km from summit (straight line)

The farm’s own field, signed off the lane — £5 all day, £10 overnight, no booking needed (the farm’s own page, read 21 September 2026; its notice is still headed 2025). A different place from the free verge on the same lane, and the reason not to race for a verge space. The farm opened it to ease the parking problems in the busy period.

Directions Something changed here?

1 more place to park near Allen Crags

Thornythwaite Fell (layby) — 3.9 km from summit (straight line)

Walking base for Allen Crags, High House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags), Red Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara) and Looking Steads (Glaramara) — the 'Allan Crags & Glaramara' route starts 135 m away. Also serves 'Scafell Pike via the Corridor Route'. Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).

Directions Something changed here?

Positions are approximate.

Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.

Buses

The 516 stops at Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, a 210 m walk from the start of Rossett Pike, Allen Crags, Great End and more — a route we rate Hard overall (hardest: distance and steepness). Last bus: Monday to Thursday 21:10 towards Ambleside (516) and 20:10 towards Kendal (516); Friday 22:30 towards Kendal (516); Saturday 22:30 towards Kendal (516); Sunday 21:10 towards Ambleside (516) and 20:10 towards Kendal (516). Checked against the operator’s timetable, 23 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 516 “Langdale Rambler”

Ambleside – Skelwith Bridge – Elterwater – New Dungeon Ghyll – Old Dungeon Ghyll

Catch it from: Ambleside · Windermere (change at Ambleside)

The Langdale bus — Pikes, Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco all walkable from the Dungeon Ghyll stops. Seasonal frequency varies; check before relying on the last bus back.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat

Hazards on Allen Crags

Hazard & Incident Information for Allen Crags

Checked by Lee McCoy, 14 June 2026. Draws on published material from Keswick Mountain Rescue Team. Editorial background, not a live callout feed.

Hazard: Moderate

A rocky top at the head of Borrowdale, right beside the great crossroads of Esk Hause — where the paths between Wasdale, Borrowdale, Langdale and the Scafells all meet, and where walkers routinely take the wrong line in cloud. The fell itself is complicated, knobbly, rocky ground with a fine but undulating ridge to Glaramara, and the high passes here see fast-changing, severe weather. Keswick Mountain Rescue Team covers this ground.

Esk Hause junction (navigation trap): Esk Hause (and the ‘false’ Esk Hause close by, which walkers often take for it) is a notorious place to go wrong: several paths meet and in cloud it is easy to set off toward the wrong valley — Langstrath, Grains Gill, Langdale or back to Sty Head. Know exactly which path you want and take a compass bearing before committing.
Rocky, knobbly ground & the Glaramara ridge: The summit and the long ridge to Glaramara are complicated, rocky and boggy, with little knolls and hollows that confuse in mist. Care needed with footing on the rock, and with route-finding along the undulating crest.
Exposure & fast-changing weather: This is high, exposed ground near the Scafell plateau, where conditions can change in minutes. Carry full kit and navigation, and be ready to turn back — the easy day out becomes serious quickly if the weather closes in.

Who should attempt this fell: Allen Crags is an enjoyable rocky top, but its key hazard is navigation: treat the Esk Hause crossroads with real care, knowing your path and bearing before you leave it, especially in cloud. Take the rocky, knobbly ridge to Glaramara steadily, carry map and compass, and be prepared for the weather to turn fast on this high ground. Full winter competence when there is snow.

What to watch for: Taking the wrong path at the Esk Hause junction in cloud · Route-finding errors on the knobbly, rocky Glaramara ridge · Slips on rocky ground and bog · Being caught out by rapidly changing high-fell weather

Local Mountain Rescue: Keswick Mountain Rescue Team (opens in new tab)

Safety: Always check current conditions, carry proper navigation equipment, and seek qualified instruction before heading onto the fells. In an emergency, call 999, ask for Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Report incorrect information (opens in new tab)

Navigating in cloud

Fewer traps in cloud

Of the three things our terrain model measures, the highest reading here is the amount of steep ground within half a kilometre of the summit. This top is in the lowest of the index’s four bands, and a low band never means “safe”: carry map and compass and know how to use them.

In winter — snow, whiteout, cornices, buried features — every top demands full winter navigation skills whatever its band, and a broad, gentle summit can be the worst place of all. See walking in bad weather and the navigation guide.

How Allen Crags compares with all 214: the Clag Index (experimental).

If you need Mountain Rescue

Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.

Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.

If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.

From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).

Map, GPX and nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).

Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.

Birketts within 3 km of Allen Crags

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits. Distances are straight lines: check the ground and access on a map before adding one.

0.8 km NNEHigh House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags)683 m · Southern

1.3 km NNERed Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara)720 m · Southern

1.5 km NWSeathwaite Fell (Great Slack)631 m · Southern

1.7 km SPike de Bield810 m · Southern

1.8 km ESEBuck Pike (Mickleden)606 m · Southern

1.8 km SWIll Crag931 m · Southern

1.9 km NNELooking Steads (Glaramara)775 m · Southern

1.9 km ESEBlack Crags (Mickleden)588 m · Southern

2.1 km WSWBroad Crag935 m · Southern

2.3 km SWPen762 m · Southern

2.7 km NNECombe Head735 m · Southern

2.8 km SSWHigh Gait Crags572 m · Southern

Routes over Allen Crags

Allen Crags & Glaramara

Summits: Allen CragsHigh House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags)Red Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara)Looking Steads (Glaramara)Glaramara

Download GPX Planned route · not yet walked

Picked for its light in: March A winter pick assumes the tops are clear of snow and ice on the day, or that you carry winter kit and know how to use it.

Warnings: The flanks of Glaramara are craggy and carry loose rock, and rock set off by a walker above has injured a walker below. On steep, loose ground, don't climb or stand directly below another walker; keep the party within sight of each other. Stay on the path to avoid dislodging stones onto those beneath you. Esk Hause (and the ‘false’ Esk Hause close by, which walkers often take for it) is a notorious place to go wrong: several paths meet and in cloud it is easy to set off toward the wrong valley — Langstrath, Grains Gill, Langdale or back to Sty Head. Know exactly which path you want and take a compass bearing before committing.

Route guide: Allen Crags & Glaramara →

Glaramara, Allen Crags via Stockley Bridge

Summits: Glaramara Looking Steads (Glaramara)Red Beck Top (Glaramara South Top) (Lincomb Head - Glaramara)High House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags)Allen Crags

Download GPX Planned route · not yet walked

Route guide: Glaramara, Allen Crags via Stockley Bridge →

Rossett Pike, Allen Crags, Great End and more

Summits: Rossett PikeAllen CragsGreat End Esk Pike Bowfell

Download GPX Planned route · not yet walked

Warnings: Bowfell: The rocky top has crags on several sides and the paths are not always obvious in mist; know your bearing for the descent before you set off. Esk Hause (and the ‘false’ Esk Hause close by, which walkers often take for it) is a notorious place to go wrong: several paths meet and in cloud it is easy to set off toward the wrong valley — Langstrath, Grains Gill, Langdale or back to Sty Head. Know exactly which path you want and take a compass bearing before committing. Esk Hause is a major crossroads where paths to Wasdale, Great Langdale, Eskdale and Borrowdale all converge. In cloud it is one of the most frequently misnavigated points in the fells; walkers have descended the wrong valley believing they were coming off Scafell Pike. Always identify the correct path by compass bearing before descending.

From the hazard notes for Bowfell, each with its sources.

Route guide: Rossett Pike, Allen Crags, Great End and more →

Every line here is a guide, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate for yourself and carry a map and compass. How to use this guide.

On the hill: terrain and water on Allen Crags

Water & shelter on the way up

On the Allen Crags & Glaramara route:

Seathwaite Farm Campsite (185 m from the start, straight line)

On the Rossett Pike, Allen Crags, Great End and more route:

Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel (102 m from the start, straight line) Great Langdale Campsite (228 m from the start, straight line) Great Langdale Campsite (251 m from the start, straight line)

About Allen Crags

Allen Crags, a Lake District fell — Photo: Mick Knapton at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The summit is a small, rocky top with a modest cairn, easily reached from Esk Hause in minutes. Most walkers combine it with Glaramara as part of the classic Borrowdale ridge walk, descending via Grains Gill to Seathwaite. A genuinely worthwhile diversion that adds little effort but rewards with distinct views.

Classifications & hill data

Is Allen Crags a Wainwright?

Allen Crags is a Wainwright. It is also on the Birkett list, the Synge list, the Nuttall list, the Fellranger list and the Hewitt list.

Selected lists

785 m

Height

2,575 ft

In feet

NY 2366 0853

Grid ref

This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.

The summit is also a Birkett.

Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →

The view from Allen Crags

The 360° skyline from Allen Crags

A computed 360° skyline — every visible named top labelled by distance and bearing, from the terrain model in perfect clarity, not photographed. Drag to pan; reveal the far four-nations horizon.

drag to pan · arrow keys

The skyline as a list, by direction

North: Crag Hill (13 km), Grisedale Pike (14 km), Skiddaw Lesser Man (19 km), Skiddaw Little Man (20 km), Knowe Crags (20 km), Skiddaw South Top (20 km), Skiddaw Middle Top (20 km), Skiddaw (21 km)
North-east: High Crag (12 km), Nethermost Pike (12 km), Helvellyn Lower Man (12 km), Helvellyn (12 km), White Side (13 km), Raise (14 km), Watson's Dodd (15 km), Stybarrow Dodd (15 km), Little Dodd (16 km), Great Dodd (16 km), Gategill Fell Top (20 km), Blencathra (21 km)
East: Dollywaggon Pike (12 km), Fairfield (13 km), Cofa Pike (13 km), Hart Crag (13 km), Dove Crag (14 km), St Sunday Crag (14 km), Red Screes (16 km), Thornthwaite Crag (20 km), High Street (21 km), Harter Fell (22 km)
West: Red Pike (7 km), Scoat Fell (8 km)
North-west: Great Gable (3 km), Green Gable (3 km), Kirk Fell (5 km), Pillar (8 km), Black Crag (8 km), High Stile (9 km), High Stile (9 km), Grasmoor (13 km)

On the clearest days the far horizon adds: Cairnsmore of Carsphairn (110 km, Scotland), The Cheviot (131 km, England), Yr Eifl (186 km, Wales), Pendle Hill (88 km, England), Gyrn Ddu (182 km, Wales), White Coomb (107 km, Scotland), Ettrick Pen (99 km, Scotland), Culter Fell (122 km, Scotland).

Computed from Copernicus GLO-30 terrain; distant tops from the Database of British and Irish Hills v18.4 (opens in new tab) (CC BY 4.0). See how we compute the view · and the summit intervisibility report below.

Sunrise and sunset on Allen Crags

Allen Crags sits close to the flat-horizon case. Even on its longest wait of the modelled year (on 1 August) first light is only 7 minutes after almanac sunrise, so the published sunrise time is a fair guide here.

Midsummer. The filled shape is the skyline as seen from the summit; the line is the sun’s path. Where they meet is first light — everything left of that point is the wait.

Times for 2026, in Lakeland clock time (GMT in winter, BST in summer) — and model outputs rather than observations.
	First light	Almanac sunrise	Difference
Midsummer	04:39 BST ±5.0 min	04:37	+2 min
Equinox	06:15 GMT ±5.0 min	06:16	-1 min
Midwinter	08:27 GMT ±5.0 min	08:33	-6 min

A low, open northern horizon — the ground falls away northwards (mean -0.3°).

Last light — when the sun leaves Allen Crags

Allen Crags loses the sun early. Its earliest evening of the modelled year falls at the March equinox, when last light is 48 minutes before almanac sunset — 17:39 against 18:27. The sun goes down to the west from here (261.6°), and the skyline on that bearing stands at 6.5°.

The evening of the same three days. A negative difference means a ridge takes the sun before the valley loses it.
	Last light	Almanac sunset	Difference
Midsummer	21:52 BST ±5.0 min	21:53	-1 min
Equinox	17:39 GMT ±5.0 min	18:27	-48 min
Midwinter	15:34 GMT ±5.0 min	15:50	-16 min

These are daylight figures, not a descent plan: the light goes on fading for a good while after the sun leaves, and going down in it is a decision about your own ground and party, not about this table.

What you can see from Allen Crags

On a clear day — computed sightlines, curvature- and refraction-corrected.

87Wainwrights in view+10 marginal

61 kmFurthest sightlineIngleborough

1Sea in viewIrish Sea

Far horizons

Ingleborough Yorkshire DalesSE · 61 km clear
Whernside Yorkshire DalesESE · 57 km clear
Irish Sea open waterSSW · 55 km in view

All 87 Wainwrights in clear view (nearest first)

Great End, Esk Pike, Rossett Pike, Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit), Glaramara, Bowfell, Great Gable, Green Gable, Base Brown, Pike of Stickle, Brandreth, Thunacar Knott, Loft Crag, Slight Side, High Raise (High White Stones), Grey Knotts, Kirk Fell, Harrison Stickle, Sergeant's Crag, Sergeant Man, Eagle Crag, Pike of Blisco, Fleetwith Pike, Ullscarf, Dale Head, Red Pike (Wasdale), Pillar, Castle Crag, High Spy, Lingmoor Fell (Brown How), Scoat Fell (Little Scoat Fell), Hindscarth, Steeple, Wetherlam, Robinson, High Stile, Seat Sandal, Cat Bells (Catbells), Dollywaggon Pike, Whiteless Pike, Heron Pike (Rydal), Nethermost Pike, Great Rigg, Wandope, Sail, Helvellyn, Causey Pike, Black Fell, Fairfield, Crag Hill (Eel Crag), White Side, Grasmoor, Barrow, Hart Crag, Walla Crag, Raise, High Pike (Scandale), Dove Crag, St Sunday Crag, Grisedale Pike, Watson's Dodd, Stybarrow Dodd, Great Dodd, Red Screes, Latrigg, Baystones (Wansfell), Clough Head, Barf, Dodd (Skiddaw), Lonscale Fell, Skiddaw Little Man, Thornthwaite Crag, Carl Side, Sour Howes, Ill Bell, Long Side, Yoke, Ullock Pike, Sallows, High Street, Skiddaw, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Kentmere Pike, Great Calva, Knott, Binsey, High Pike (Caldbeck)

How the view from Allen Crags compares with all 214 — the View Report: every Wainwright ranked by what you can see from the top.

How the skyline, light and sightlines are computed

Computed, not photographed. First light is the first minute the sun’s upper limb clears this summit’s own skyline and last light the last minute it is still clear of it, both solved against the 360° horizon profile behind The View from Allen Crags. Almanac sunrise and sunset are the flat-horizon convention. Every time carries a ± band from the 30 m elevation model — it smooths arêtes and cornices, so nothing here claims better than five minutes.

Sightlines from the Copernicus GLO-30 elevation model, which is a surface model: each 30 m cell holds the top of whatever stands there, trees and buildings included, rather than bare ground. Corrected for the Earth’s curvature and average atmospheric refraction. “Distant” sightlines and any over 100 km depend on exceptionally clear air. Modelled from Copernicus GLO-30 open elevation data — a guide to the view, not a guarantee of any single one.

Places to stay near this fell

From Great Langdale: 3 places in Grasmere

Frequently asked questions about Allen Crags

Is Allen Crags hard? Answered above.

Questions from Google’s “People also ask”. · Last updated 2026-08-30 · Suggest a question or correction (opens in new tab)

Allen Crags

Summit conditions on Allen Crags

Wind on the top

Cloud on the top

Rain, and the becks

Routes up Allen Crags

Is Allen Crags hard?

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Parking & buses for Allen Crags

Parking

Buses

Hazards on Allen Crags

Hazard & Incident Information for Allen Crags

Navigating in cloud

If you need Mountain Rescue

Map, GPX and nearby Birketts

Birketts within 3 km of Allen Crags

Routes over Allen Crags

On the hill: terrain and water on Allen Crags

Water & shelter on the way up

About Allen Crags

Classifications & hill data

Is Allen Crags a Wainwright?

Selected lists

The view from Allen Crags

The 360° skyline from Allen Crags

Sunrise and sunset on Allen Crags

Last light — when the sun leaves Allen Crags

What you can see from Allen Crags

Places to stay near this fell

Frequently asked questions about Allen Crags

Other fells near Allen Crags