⛰️ Bonscale Pike

📖 Key Information

Bonscale Pike at 524m (1,719ft) stands above Ullswater's western shore, its grassy summit giving fine views of the lake's southern reach and across to the Helvellyn range. Wainwright noted its pleasant position above the lake and the views it gives of the Loadpot Hill plateau to the south. The ascent from Howtown is short and straightforward, often combined with Arthur's Pike as a short Ullswater circuit.

🎯 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 Bonscale Pike (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

No regular bus serves the start points for this fell — this is one for the car (or a long approach from the nearest served valley). The nearest hubs are Penrith (X4/X5 & 508), Ambleside and Windermere (555, 505, 516).

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
• Birks
• 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