Dufton Pike
Dufton Pike at 481m (1,579ft) is a Marilyn in the North Pennines National Landscape, 1.1 km south-south-west of Brownber Hill. Our planned Dufton Pike and its Neighbours route from Dufton village climbs it first, about 295 m in 2.5 km.
Summit conditions on Dufton Pike
On the summit on Saturday 24 October: 9° to 2°C, gusts to 49 mph, 13.7 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.
The forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →
Routes up Dufton Pike
Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.
Distance and climb are measured from the route’s GPX track, and the time from them by Naismith’s rule; the route page says what each grade rests on. How we check →
How hard is Dufton Pike?
The shortest way up we hold is Dufton Pike and its Neighbours — 14.15 km, 784 m of ascent, ~4–5½ h. On our scale its hardest axis is steepness — Severe.
All axes: steepness: Severe · length: Hard · navigation: Hard · terrain: Not assessed · exposure: Not assessed.
These are the route page’s grades, set by the rules on how we grade: length and steepness measured from its GPX track, the others set on the ground, judged from the map or estimated from OpenStreetMap. The route page says which. How we check →
Conditions and 7-day summit forecast
Modelled for the 481 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
Full 7-day forecast
Taken 24 Oct 2026, 20:18 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)
Parking & buses for Dufton Pike
Parking for Dufton Pike
Route starts first, then the car parks nearest the summit, which are not always a way up.
Positions are approximate.
Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.
Getting to Dufton Pike by bus
We don’t know yet. We don’t have a measured bus answer for this fell: the bus stops we hold are the Lake District’s, and this hill is outside it. That’s a gap in our data, not a sign that no bus comes here.
Hazards on Dufton Pike
We have not written a hazard card for this fell yet, and that is not a sign that it is low-hazard. Read the warnings on the route pages that climb it, check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected. AdventureSmart’s hill walking kit list and Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s safety page are linked from our what to carry guide.
Map and GPX
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).
Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.
Routes over Dufton Pike
Download GPX Planned route · not yet walked
Every line here is a guide, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate for yourself and carry a map and compass. How to use this guide.
On the hill: terrain and water on Dufton Pike
Water & shelter on the way up
On the Dufton Pike and its Neighbours route:
Treat water from the fell before you drink it. A mapped point is not proof the water is drinkable, so carry your own or use a supply you know is safe. Never drink untreated from a beck, stream or tarn — even clear-looking hill water can carry giardia or cryptosporidium from livestock upstream and leave you seriously ill. Use a treatment method suited to what might be in the water, and follow the device’s own instructions. Boiling and ordinary filters do not make water with dissolved metals or chemicals safe: where that is possible, choose another source.
On-route facilities © OpenStreetMap contributors, per route — an absent marker doesn’t mean none.
About Dufton Pike
Classifications & hill data
Is Dufton Pike a Wainwright?
No. The Wainwrights are the 214 fells of his seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, and Dufton Pike is not one of them. It is on the Marilyn list.
Selected lists
Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →