⛰️ Little Gowder Crag

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

734 mBirkett — Western (not a Wainwright summit)+3 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Little Gowder Crag at 580m (1,903ft) is a rocky summit above the Ennerdale valley, its crags giving a dramatic face above the forest below. A Birkett fell on the ridges above Ennerdale. The views of Ennerdale Water and the surrounding fells are fine from this craggy summit.

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.

1.9 km WNWIron Crag (Ennerdale Fell)640 m · Western
2.1 km NLingmell (Ennerdale)427 m · Western
2.7 km ENEBlack Crag828 m · Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Little Gowder Crag (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Wasdale Head (NT car park) — 3.1 km from summit (straight line)
National Trust, pay & display (free for members). The classic base for Scafell Pike, Great Gable, Kirk Fell, Yewbarrow. Fills very early.
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Overbeck Bridge, Wastwater (NT, free) — 4.5 km from summit (straight line)
Small free NT car park at the foot of Yewbarrow on the lakeshore road.
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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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