⛰️ Dove Crag

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

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792 mWainwright — Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+4 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Dove Crag at 792m (2,598ft) takes its name from the impressive cliff on its eastern face above Dovedale — a favourite with rock climbers and a dramatic feature visible from the valley below. Wainwright described the crag as one of the finest in the Eastern Fells, though the walker's route stays safely above it on the broad ridge. The summit is part of the classic Fairfield Horseshoe, and the high-level path along the Fairfield ridge gives good views across to Helvellyn and south to Windermere. An essential part of any full traverse of the Dove Crag-Hart Crag-Fairfield ridge.

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.

2.3 km NWCofa Pike823 m · Eastern
2.5 km SWHeron Pike North Top (Rydal Fell)621 m · Eastern
2.7 km NEGale Crag512 m · Eastern
3.0 km NGavel Pike784 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Dove Crag (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Kirkstone Pass (laybys / inn) — 3.1 km from summit (straight line)
High start for Red Screes (30 min!), Caudale Moor and Middle Dodd.
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Cow Bridge, Hartsop (free) — 4.0 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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