⛰️ Great Carrs

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

785 mWainwright — Southern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+6 bonus Birketts within 3 km

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.

0.6 km NLittle Carrs692 m · Southern
0.7 km NNWHell Gill Pike662 m · Southern
1.0 km SSEGreat How (Swirl Band)775 m · Southern
1.2 km EBlack Sails745 m · Southern
2.5 km ENEBirk Fell Man - Birk Fell528 m · Southern
2.9 km ENEHawk Rigg441 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Great Carrs (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Three Shire Stone, Wrynose Pass (verge) — 1.9 km from summit (straight line)
High-level start for Pike o' Blisco, Cold Pike, Wet Side Edge and the Greenburn fells.
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Seathwaite, Duddon Valley (roadside) — 3.9 km from summit (straight line)
Limited roadside parking near the Newfield Inn for the Dunnerdale fells and Walna Scar side.
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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

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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