⛰️ Arnison Crag

433 m · Wainwright — Eastern Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

433 mWainwright — Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+3 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Arnison Crag at 433m (1,421ft) is the small, craggy summit directly above Patterdale village, its rocky top giving an excellent bird's-eye view of the village and Goldrill Beck below. Wainwright described it as a fine little fell for an evening stroll from Patterdale, with views across to St Sunday Crag and up Grisedale towards the high fells. The ascent from the village is short and direct. An ideal first fell for children or as a leg-stretcher after arriving at Patterdale for a long weekend.

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

🎯 Bonus Birketts within 3 km

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits — detour to them on this walk and they are pure profit. Distances are straight-line; allow extra for terrain.

2.5 km SGale Crag512 m · Eastern
2.6 km SWGavel Pike784 m · Eastern
2.9 km NNEThe Knight552 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Arnison Crag (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Patterdale (paid) — 0.8 km from summit (straight line)
For Place Fell, St Sunday Crag, the Grisedale fells.
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Cow Bridge, Hartsop (free) — 1.6 km from summit (straight line)
Free car park by Brothers Water — Hartsop above How, Dovedale, Caudale Moor.
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Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 508 “Ullswater Bus”
Penrith – Pooley Bridge – Aira Force – Glenridding – Patterdale (summer services continue over Kirkstone Pass to Troutbeck and Windermere)
Catch it from: Penrith · Windermere (summer only)
The key route from Penrith for the Eastern and Far Eastern fells: Helvellyn from Glenridding, Place Fell, the Hartsop fells. The summer Kirkstone extension drops you at the pass for Red Screes and Caudale Moor.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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