Hartsop Dodd
Hartsop Dodd at 618m (2,028ft) is a grassy ridge summit above Hartsop village, its long slope rising to a broad top with fine views of Brothers Water and the Patterdale valley below.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 619 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 15° to 13°C, gusts to 38 mph, 13.5 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 619 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
Hartsop Dodd
Routes up Hartsop 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: Hartsop village (free, donation), about 1.2 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Hartsop 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 Hartsop Dodd
✎️ Planned route — drawn but not personally walked or checked yet.
A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass.
A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass.
The View from Hartsop 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 Hartsop Dodd, by direction
- North: Place Fell (5 km), Tarn Crags Top (20 km), Carrock Fell (23 km)
- North-east: High Raise (4 km), Wether Hill (7 km), Loadpot Hill (8 km)
- East: Rampsgill Head (3 km)
- South-east: Thornthwaite Crag (3 km)
- South: Caudale Moor (2 km)
- South-west: Little Hart Crag (3 km), High Pike (5 km), Wetherlam (16 km), Great Carrs (18 km), Swirl How (18 km), Great How (18 km), Grey Friar (19 km), Brim Fell (19 km), The Old Man of Coniston (20 km)
- West: Dove Crag (4 km), Hart Crag (4 km), St Sunday Crag (4 km), Fairfield (5 km), Cofa Pike (5 km), Dollywaggon Pike (7 km), High Crag (7 km)
- North-west: Catstye Cam (8 km), Helvellyn (8 km), Helvellyn Lower Man (8 km), Raise (9 km), Green Side (9 km), Birkett Fell (9 km), Hart Side (10 km), Stybarrow Dodd (10 km), Great Dodd (11 km), Scales Fell (18 km), Blencathra (18 km), Gategill Fell Top (18 km), Atkinson Pike (19 km), Bannerdale Crags (19 km), Bowscale Fell (20 km)
On the clearest days the far horizon adds: Arenig Fawr (184 km, Wales), White Coomb (106 km, Scotland), Ettrick Pen (98 km, Scotland), Carnedd y Filiast (176 km, Wales), Arenig Fach (180 km, Wales), Sighty Crag (72 km, England), Mwdwl-eithin (165 km, Wales), Roan Fell (81 km, Scotland).
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 Hartsop Dodd
On a clear day — computed sightlines, curvature- and refraction-corrected.All 49 Wainwrights in clear view (nearest first)
Gray Crag, Brock Crags (Wainwright), High Hartsop Dodd, Thornthwaite Crag, The Knott (High Street), Middle Dodd, Rest Dodd, Hartsop Above How (Gill Crag - Hartsop Above How), Little Hart Crag (Little Hart Crag - West Top), Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top), Rampsgill Head, Red Screes, Arnison Crag, Dove Crag, High Raise (High Street), Birks, The Nab, Hart Crag, St Sunday Crag, High Pike (Scandale), Place Fell, Fairfield, Low Pike, Beda Fell (Beda Head), Birkhouse Moor, Glenridding Dodd, Dollywaggon Pike, Wether Hill, Steel Knotts (Pikeawassa - Steel Knotts), Catstye Cam, Helvellyn, Sheffield Pike, Loadpot Hill, Hallin Fell, Raise, Hart Side, Stybarrow Dodd, Great Dodd, Little Mell Fell, Wetherlam, Great Carrs, Swirl How, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Souther Fell, Bannerdale Crags, Brim Fell, The Old Man of Coniston (Coniston Old Man), Bowscale Fell, Carrock Fell
How Hartsop 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 Hartsop 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 Caudale Moor & St Raven's Edge route:
On the Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike, Thornthwaite Crag and Gray Crag route:
On-route facilities © OpenStreetMap contributors, per route — an absent marker doesn’t mean none.
Buses to Hartsop 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 Hartsop Dodd (Strava)
1 logged hike pass over this summit:
- Nice windy Hike with Henry, Chris and Bobby (opens in new tab) — 10.0 km · 996 m ascent · 3h 11m moving · 9 Feb 2025
Interactive route maps and photos load here for visitors with JavaScript. Data from Strava.
Navigating Hartsop Dodd in cloud
Serious in cloudWalkable ground sits close to a lethal drop — in cloud it’s easy to walk straight onto steep ground. A serious place to be caught in cloud: carry map and compass (or GPS) and know how to use them, or save it for a clear day.
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 Hartsop Dodd compares with all 214 — the Clag Index: navigating in cloud. A relative, deliberately cautious guide; the site can’t navigate for you.
Other fells near Hartsop Dodd
- Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top)
- Arthur's Pike
- Baystones (Wansfell)
- Beda Fell (Beda Head)
- Bonscale Pike
- Branstree
- Brock Crags (Wainwright)
- Froswick
- Gray Crag
- Grey Crag (Sleddale Fell)
- Hallin Fell
- Harter Fell (Mardale)
- High Raise (High Street)
- High Street
- Ill Bell
- Kentmere Pike
- Kidsty Pike
- Loadpot Hill
- Mardale Ill Bell
- Place Fell
- Rampsgill Head
- Rest Dodd
- Sallows
- Selside Pike
- Shipman Knotts
- Sour Howes
- Steel Knotts (Pikeawassa - Steel Knotts)
- Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)
- Tarn Crag (Sleddale)
- The Knott (High Street)
- The Nab
- Thornthwaite Crag
- Troutbeck Tongue
- Wether Hill
- Yoke
Maps & guidebooks for Hartsop Dodd
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