⛰️ Howes

📖 Key Information

Sour Howes at 483m (1,585ft) is a broad, grassy summit above Troutbeck with good views south to Windermere. Wainwright noted it as a pleasant, easy outing from Troutbeck, its summit open moorland with fine views of the Kentmere fells. Combined naturally with Sallows as a gentle circuit above the Troutbeck valley. A good low-level option when the higher fells are in cloud.

🎯 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.

🦶 My hikes over Howes (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

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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Other fells in this region

• Selside Pike
• Branstree
• Tarn Crag (Sleddale)
• Grey Crag (Sleddale Fell)
• Harter Fell (Mardale)
• Kentmere Pike
• Shipman Knotts
• Mardale Ill Bell
• Kidsty Pike
• High Street
• High Raise (High Street)
• Rampsgill Head