Glenridding Dodd
Glenridding Dodd at 442m (1,450ft) is a small grassy summit above the Glenridding valley, its top giving good views of Ullswater and across to Sheffield Pike.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 442 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 16° to 15°C, gusts to 41 mph, 5.8 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 442 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
About the walk
Glenridding Dodd
Routes up Glenridding Dodd
Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: Glenridding (paid), about 1.0 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Glenridding Dodd (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.
Routes over Glenridding Dodd
A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass.
The View from Glenridding Dodd
A computed 360° skyline — every visible named top labelled by distance and bearing, from the terrain model in perfect clarity, not photographed. Drag to pan; reveal the far four-nations horizon.
What you can see from Glenridding Dodd, by direction
- North: Brown Hills (2 km), Swineside Knott (2 km), Common Fell (3 km), Great Mell Fell (8 km)
- North-east: Green Hill (4 km), Gowbarrow Fell (5 km), Little Mell Fell (8 km), Cross Fell (35 km)
- East: The Knight (2 km), Place Fell (3 km), Arthur's Pike (9 km)
- South-east: Angletarn Pikes (4 km), Angletarn Pikes South Top (4 km), Brock Crags (5 km), Rest Dodd (6 km), Hartsop Dodd (6 km), The Knott (8 km), Rampsgill Head (8 km), High Raise (8 km), Caudale Moor (8 km), Stony Cove Pike (8 km), High Street (9 km), Thornthwaite Crag (9 km), Froswick (11 km)
- South: Birks (3 km), Gavel Pike (4 km), St Sunday Crag (4 km), Cofa Pike (6 km), Fairfield (6 km), Middle Dodd (8 km), Red Screes (9 km), St Raven's Edge (10 km)
- South-west: Catstye Cam (4 km), Helvellyn Lower Man (5 km), Dollywaggon Pike (6 km), Seat Sandal (7 km)
- West: Heron Pike (1 km), Raise (4 km), White Side (4 km)
- North-west: Birkett Fell (3 km)
Computed from terrain in perfect clarity, not photographed · distances are straight-line.
Computed from Copernicus GLO-30 terrain; distant tops from the Database of British and Irish Hills (opens in new tab) (CC BY 4.0). See how we compute the view · and the summit intervisibility report below.
What you can see from Glenridding Dodd
On a clear day — computed sightlines, curvature- and refraction-corrected.- Great Dun Fell North Pennines
- Cross Fell North Pennines
All 28 Wainwrights in clear view (nearest first)
Place Fell, Arnison Crag, Birks, Catstye Cam, Raise, St Sunday Crag, Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top), White Side, Gowbarrow Fell (Wainwright summit), Brock Crags (Wainwright), Dollywaggon Pike, Hallin Fell, Fairfield, Rest Dodd, Hartsop Dodd, Seat Sandal, The Knott (High Street), Little Mell Fell, Rampsgill Head, High Raise (High Street), Great Mell Fell, Middle Dodd, Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor), Arthur's Pike, High Street, Red Screes, Thornthwaite Crag, Froswick
How Glenridding Dodd’s view compares with all 214 — the View Report: every Wainwright ranked by what you can see from the top.
Sightlines from a bare-earth terrain model (forests and buildings not included), corrected for the Earth’s curvature and average atmospheric refraction. “Distant” sightlines and any over 100 km depend on exceptionally clear air. Modelled from Copernicus GLO-30 open elevation data — a guide to the view, not a guarantee of any single one.
Best parking to hike Glenridding Dodd
Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).
Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.
Tip: pan and zoom the interactive map at the top of this page to spot other potential parking near your route.
Water & shelter on the way up
On the Glenridding Dodd, Sheffield Pike, Catstye Cam, Birkhouse Moor route:
On-route facilities © OpenStreetMap contributors, per route — an absent marker doesn’t mean none.
Buses to Glenridding Dodd from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
My hikes over Glenridding Dodd (Strava)
1 logged hike pass over this summit:
- A great, quiet walk until it wasn't. (opens in new tab) — 15.4 km · 1217 m ascent · 4h 19m moving · 2 Sep 2023
Interactive route maps and photos load here for visitors with JavaScript. Data from Strava.
Navigating Glenridding Dodd in cloud
StraightforwardA rough, rocky summit ringed by crags, with no single obvious way off in poor visibility. Navigation here is relatively straightforward even in cloud — but carry map and compass and know how to use them; a low score never means “safe”.
In winter — snow, whiteout, cornices, buried features — every top demands full winter navigation skills whatever its band, and a broad, gentle summit can be the worst place of all. See walking in bad weather and the navigation guide.
How Glenridding Dodd compares with all 214 — the Clag Index: navigating in cloud. A relative, deliberately cautious guide; the site can’t navigate for you.
Frequently asked questions about Glenridding Dodd
Is Glenridding Dodd a hard walk?
Short but genuinely steep — the honest answer. It's only 442 m (1,450 ft) and under an hour from Glenridding village, but the pull up to the col above Mossdale Beck is relentless for its length, on a rough zig-zag path. Nothing technical, just steep.
The reward is one of the best low viewpoints on Ullswater — the lake fills the view from a summit you can climb before breakfast. We walked it in July 2026.
Where do you start the Glenridding Dodd walk?
From Glenridding village (big pay-and-display car park): head up past the shops towards Greenside, then take the path climbing right towards the col between the Dodd and Sheffield Pike. The summit path doubles back right from the col.
How long does Glenridding Dodd take?
About 1.5–2 hours up and down from the village. Our walked route continues over Sheffield Pike to Catstye Cam and Birkhouse Moor — a fine full round of about 15.5 km if you want more than a viewpoint.
Is Glenridding Dodd a Wainwright?
Yes — the little Eastern Fells one above the village, once a favourite Victorian viewpoint when Glenridding was a mining town. The old Greenside mine workings above it are part of the fell's story — and part of why the becks below carry the history they do — which is worth knowing before you refill a bottle from a Lakeland beck.
Questions drawn from real Google “People also ask” searches; answers written and fact-checked by us. · Reviewed 2026-07-27 · Suggest a question or correction (opens in new tab)
Other fells near Glenridding Dodd
- Arnison Crag
- Birkhouse Moor
- Birks
- Catstye Cam
- Clough Head
- Dollywaggon Pike
- Dove Crag
- Fairfield
- Gowbarrow Fell (Wainwright summit)
- Great Dodd
- Great Mell Fell
- Great Rigg
- Hart Crag
- Hart Side
- Hartsop Above How (Gill Crag - Hartsop Above How)
- Helvellyn
- Heron Pike (Rydal)
- High Hartsop Dodd
- High Pike (Scandale)
- Little Hart Crag (Little Hart Crag - West Top)
- Little Mell Fell
- Low Pike
- Middle Dodd
- Nab Scar
- Nethermost Pike
- Raise
- Red Screes
- Seat Sandal
- Sheffield Pike
- St Sunday Crag
- Stone Arthur
- Stybarrow Dodd
- Watson's Dodd
- White Side
Maps & guidebooks for Glenridding Dodd
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