⛰️ Great Rigg

📖 Key Information

Great Rigg at 766m (2,513ft) is the subsidiary summit on the Fairfield Horseshoe between Fairfield and Heron Pike, a broad ridge top that Wainwright described as giving one of the finest views of the Rydal valley and the wooded country south towards Ambleside. The summit is usually passed without pausing on the popular Fairfield Horseshoe circuit, but those who linger are rewarded with excellent views of Windermere and the distant sea. The descent from here via Stone Arthur to Grasmere is an excellent alternative finish to the horseshoe circuit.

🎯 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.

🦶 My hikes over Great Rigg (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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Other fells in this region

• Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top)
• Arnison Crag
• Arthur's Pike
• Birkhouse Moor
• Birks
• Bonscale Pike
• Brock Crags (Wainwright)
• Catstye Cam
• Clough Head
• Dollywaggon Pike
• Dove Crag
• Fairfield
• Glenridding Dodd
• Gowbarrow Fell (Wainwright summit)
• Great Dodd
• Great Mell Fell
• Hallin Fell
• Hart Crag
• Hart Side
• Helvellyn
• Heron Pike (Rydal)
• High Pike (Scandale)
• High Rigg (Naddle Fell)
• Little Mell Fell
• Loughrigg Fell
• Low Pike
• Nab Scar
• Nethermost Pike
• Place Fell
• Raise
• Red Screes
• Seat Sandal
• Sheffield Pike
• St Sunday Crag
• Stone Arthur
• Stybarrow Dodd
• Watson's Dodd
• White Side