High Pike Haw
High Pike Haw at 354m (1,161ft) is a Birkett top in the low fells south of Coniston above the Torver area, giving views across Coniston Water and south to the Furness Fells.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 354 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Sat 12 Sep): 16° to 9°C, gusts to 39 mph, 31.9 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 354 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
High Pike Haw at a glance
Getting there
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is High Pike Haw a Wainwright?
High Pike Haw is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list and the Synge list.
Where do you park for High Pike Haw?
The nearest car park we hold is High Pike Haw (layby), about 1.7 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Torver car park, 2.0 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 Pike Haw
No route guide for this fell yet. The nearest routes we publish start close by:
- The Coniston Horseshoe — starts 3.3 km away
- Birketts by Dunnerdale Fells — starts 3.5 km away
- Top o' Selside — starts 4.2 km away
Parking & buses for High Pike Haw
Best parking to hike High Pike Haw
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 Pike Haw by bus
The nearest bus stop we hold is the 505 at Coniston, outside John Ruskin School, 6.0 km of walking from the start — not realistically reachable without a car.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on High Pike Haw
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: High Pike Haw (layby), about 1.7 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near High Pike Haw (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 Pike Haw
Terrain & access
A pathless top (about 354 m) — the nearest mapped path is about 514 m away, the open ground you’d cross to the summit (about 27 m of ascent, up to ~17°). 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 Pike Haw
- 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)