⛰️ Ill Crag

📖 Key Information

Ill Crag at 935m (3,068ft) is one of the three satellite summits crowning the broad ridge that connects Great End to Scafell Pike. Wainwright included it as a separate fell in his Southern Fells guide, noting its rocky, boulder-strewn summit offers an unusual perspective on the Scafell massif. Most walkers pass over it en route to the Pike via the Corridor Route, rarely pausing to acknowledge it as a summit in its own right. The views north to Great Gable and the Gable Crag are excellent. Combined with Broad Crag and Great End, it makes this one of the richest ridge walks in the district.

🎯 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 Ill Crag (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

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

• 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
• Lingmell
• Lingmoor Fell (Brown How)
• Pike of Blisco
• Rossett Pike
• Scafell
• Scafell Pike
• Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit)
• Slight Side
• Swirl How
• The Old Man of Coniston (Coniston Old Man)
• Wetherlam