⛰️ High Gait Crags

572 m · Birkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit) · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

572 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+14 bonus Birketts within 3 km

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

🎯 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.

0.9 km SSWScar Lathing439 m · Southern
1.2 km NNEPike de Bield810 m · Southern
1.3 km NWPen762 m · Southern
1.4 km SThrostlehow Crag404 m · Southern
1.7 km NNWIll Crag931 m · Southern
2.0 km ESEShelter Crags815 m · Southern
2.0 km SWHigh Scarth487 m · Southern
2.0 km SSWSilverybield Crag395 m · Southern
2.1 km ESECrinkle Crags - Fourth Crinkle832 m · Southern
2.1 km NWBroad Crag935 m · Southern
2.3 km ESECrinkle Crags South Top (First Crinkle)834 m · Southern
2.6 km SEStonesty Pike765 m · Southern
2.7 km SYew Bank499 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over High Gait Crags (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Hardknott Pass (roadside pull-ins) — 4.4 km from summit (straight line)
Limited pull-ins near the pass summit for Hard Knott and Harter Fell. Don't block passing places.
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Three Shire Stone, Wrynose Pass (verge) — 5.8 km from summit (straight line)
High-level start for Pike o' Blisco, Cold Pike, Wet Side Edge and the Greenburn fells.
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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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