⛰️ Birks

📖 Key Information

Birks at 622m (2,040ft) is the lower, southern ridge of St Sunday Crag above Grisedale, its summit giving good views up the valley to Fairfield and across to the Helvellyn range. Wainwright included it as a separate fell, noting its pleasant, open summit and the fine views it gives of the Patterdale valley below. Most naturally combined with St Sunday Crag as the starting point of the approach from Patterdale via the Birks ridge. A worthwhile fell in its own right, particularly for the views of Grisedale and its dark, glaciated valley.

🎯 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.

🦶 My hikes over Birks (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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Other fells in this region

• Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top)
• Arnison Crag
• Arthur's Pike
• Birkhouse Moor
• Bonscale Pike
• Brock Crags (Wainwright)
• Catstye Cam
• Clough Head
• Dollywaggon Pike
• Dove Crag
• Fairfield
• Glenridding Dodd
• Gowbarrow Fell (Wainwright summit)
• Great Dodd
• Great Mell Fell
• Great Rigg
• Hallin Fell
• Hart Crag
• Hart Side
• Helvellyn
• Heron Pike (Rydal)
• High Pike (Scandale)
• High Rigg (Naddle Fell)
• Little Mell Fell
• Loughrigg Fell
• Low Pike
• Nab Scar
• Nethermost Pike
• Place Fell
• Raise
• Red Screes
• Seat Sandal
• Sheffield Pike
• St Sunday Crag
• Stone Arthur
• Stybarrow Dodd
• Watson's Dodd
• White Side