⛰️ Broad Crag

935 m · Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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935 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+7 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Broad Crag at 934m (3,064ft) sits on the final ridge between Ill Crag and Scafell Pike, forming one of the three high satellite summits of England's highest mountain. Wainwright noted its boulder-choked summit makes it one of the more awkward fell-tops in the district to actually stand on — a jumble of large stones with no single obvious highest point. Most walkers pass within metres of the summit cairn without realising it. The views from the ridge are superb in all directions, particularly the drop into Eskdale to the south and across to the Scafell crags. An essential tick for the thorough Wainwright bagger.

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.

0.5 km ESEIll Crag931 m · Southern
0.9 km SSEPen762 m · Southern
1.9 km ESEPike de Bield810 m · Southern
2.1 km SEHigh Gait Crags572 m · Southern
2.3 km NNESeathwaite Fell (Great Slack - Seathwaite Fell)631 m · Southern
2.7 km SSEScar Lathing439 m · Southern
2.7 km NEHigh House Tarn Top (High House - Allen Crags)683 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Broad Crag (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge) — 5.5 km from summit (straight line)
Free verge parking on the Seathwaite lane — the honeypot start for the Scafells, Great Gable and Glaramara. Arrive very early.
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Wasdale Head (NT car park) — 5.9 km from summit (straight line)
National Trust, pay & display (free for members). The classic base for Scafell Pike, Great Gable, Kirk Fell, Yewbarrow. Fills very early.
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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 78 “Borrowdale Rambler”
Keswick – Lodore – Grange – Rosthwaite – Seatoller
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 or X4/X5)
Year-round, frequent in season. Serves all the Borrowdale starts — Glaramara, the Scafells and Great Gable via Seathwaite (alight Seatoller, 20 min walk up the lane).

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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