High Crag (Grisedale)
High Crag at 884m (2,900ft) is a dramatic Birkett top on the ridge between Nethermost Pike and St Sunday Crag above Grisedale in the Eastern Fells, its craggy character giving views into the wild upper Grisedale valley and across Ullswater.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 884 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 13° to 12°C, gusts to 38 mph, 8.4 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 884 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
Routes up High Crag (Grisedale)
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: Steel End, Thirlmere (paid), about 1.5 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near High Crag (Grisedale) (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 High Crag (Grisedale)
A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass.
Best parking to hike High Crag (Grisedale)
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 Helvellyn & Nethermost Pike via Seat Sandal route:
On-route facilities © OpenStreetMap contributors, per route — an absent marker doesn’t mean none.
Buses to High Crag (Grisedale) 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 High Crag (Grisedale) (Strava)
1 logged hike pass over this summit:
- A few more Wainwrights in the wind and rain (opens in new tab) — 17.6 km · 1347 m ascent · 4h 27m moving · 16 Jul 2023
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Other fells near High Crag (Grisedale)
- Arnison Crag
- Birkhouse Moor
- Birks
- Catstye Cam
- Clough Head
- Dollywaggon Pike
- Dove Crag
- Fairfield
- Glenridding Dodd
- 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 High Crag (Grisedale)
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