High Fell (Hawk Rigg)
High Fell at 428m (1,404ft) is a Birkett top above the Tilberthwaite valley near Coniston, its rocky summit giving views across the quarry landscape and south to the Furness Fells.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 428 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Sat 12 Sep): 15° to 8°C, gusts to 42 mph, 40.0 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 12 Sep 2026, 18:50 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 428 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
High Fell (Hawk Rigg) at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is High Fell (Hawk Rigg) a Wainwright?
High Fell (Hawk Rigg) is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list and the Synge list.
Where do you park for High Fell (Hawk Rigg)?
The nearest car park we hold is Blake Rigg car park (free), about 0.9 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Tilberthwaite (paid), 0.9 km out. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.
Routes up High Fell (Hawk Rigg)
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:
- Slater Bridge & Cathedral Cave — starts 2.3 km away
- Black Sails & Great How — starts 2.6 km away
- Stonesty Pike, Great Knott & Wrynose Fell — starts 2.6 km away
Parking & buses for High Fell (Hawk Rigg)
Best parking to hike High Fell (Hawk Rigg)
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.
Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.
Getting to High Fell (Hawk Rigg) by bus
The 517 stops at Yew Tree Tarn (at), 2.6 km from the nearest parking for this fell. We haven’t mapped a route up it, so we can’t tell you the walk from there to the start. We haven’t published last buses, Sunday or winter service yet, so check the timetable before you rely on getting back.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on High Fell (Hawk Rigg)
No hazard card for this fell. The usual open-fell rules apply: check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected.
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: Blake Rigg car park (free), about 0.9 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near High Fell (Hawk Rigg) (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.
On the hill: terrain and water on High Fell (Hawk Rigg)
Terrain & access
A near-path top (about 428 m): a mapped path comes within about 54 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 3 m of ascent, up to ~16°). The summit is on CRoW open access land.
Computed from open data, not walked — pathless ground needs confident navigation, and mapped paths, barriers and access boundaries can be incomplete. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (via Overpass); Natural England CRoW Access Land; DoBIH; Copernicus GLO-30. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 144 fells.
Other fells near High Fell (Hawk Rigg)
- Allen Crags
- Black Fell
- Bowfell
- Brim Fell
- Cold Pike
- Crinkle Crags - Long Top (Second Crinkle)
- Dow Crag
- Esk Pike
- Glaramara
- Great Carrs
- Great End
- Green Crag
- Grey Friar
- Hard Knott
- Harter Fell (Eskdale)
- Holme Fell
- Illgill Head
- Lingmell
- Lingmoor Fell (Brown How)
- Pike of Blisco
- Rossett Pike
- Rosthwaite Fell - Bessyboot
- Scafell
- Scafell Pike
- Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit)
- Slight Side
- Swirl How
- The Old Man of Coniston (Coniston Old Man)
- Wetherlam
- Whin Rigg (Wasdale)