⛰️ Great Sca Fell

📖 Key Information

Great Sca Fell at 651m (2,136ft) is a rounded, grassy summit in the Back o' Skiddaw country, giving wide views across the northern moorlands to the Solway and the Pennines. Wainwright included it as part of the Back o' Skiddaw group, noting its remote character and the sense of spaciousness it offers. The ascent from Orthwaite or Fell Side crosses open moorland. Combined naturally with Knott and Brae Fell for a circuit of the northern Skiddaw fells. A fell for those who appreciate wide, peaceful moorland walking.

🎯 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 Sca Fell (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

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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Other fells in this region

• Bakestall
• Bannerdale Crags
• Binsey
• Blencathra - Hallsfell Top
• Bowscale Fell
• Brae Fell
• Carl Side
• Carrock Fell
• Dodd (Skiddaw)
• Great Calva
• Great Cockup
• High Pike (Caldbeck)
• Knott
• Latrigg
• Ling Fell
• Long Side
• Longlands Fell
• Lonscale Fell
• Meal Fell
• Mungrisdale Common
• Sale Fell
• Skiddaw
• Skiddaw Little Man
• Souther Fell
• Ullock Pike