Loft Crag

Written and walked by Lee McCoy · Summited June 2024

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682 mWainwright — Central Fells+7 bonus Birketts within 3 km Severe in cloud

Loft Crag at 682m (2,237ft) is the lowest of the Langdale Pikes, sitting between Pike of Stickle and Harrison Stickle on the western side of the Pikes circuit.

Summit conditions on Loft Crag

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 11° to 5°C, gusts to 58 mph, 12.7 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Against our lines, Tuesday 27 October: wind, cold and cloud from the Met Office UKV 2 km model (daylight hours, as in the verdict above); rain from the summit line’s forecast (the whole day). A tile is large when this top is past its line.

Wind on the top

Past the line

60 mph, our estimate for the open top in the worst daylight hour

The Met Office 2 km model’s gust of 50 mph times our exposure factor of 1.19. The summit line above gives Open-Meteo’s highest gust for the whole day, 58 mph, before any exposure factor.

The line Our line: 25 mph, where our wind Scale begins its 25–35 band: “balance affected; buffeting on exposed ground”. MWIS (opens in new tab) describes what wind does to a walker across a range rather than at a line: from about 20–25 mph it starts to affect your balance.

Estimated: it is not calibrated against summit readings, and the two forecasts can disagree by more than a band.

Cloud on the top

Past the line

11 out of 100, the clear-top reading

Averaged over the daylight hours, from the forecast’s humidity and low cloud.

The line Our line: a clear-top reading under 20 out of 100, where our scorer says “summit likely clagged in”. There is no outside threshold to cite; it is our estimate. What cloud does to finding the way: navigating in cloud.

Not an observation: cloud lifts and drops within the hour.

Rain, and the becks

Past the line

12.7 mm of rain over the whole day, midnight to midnight

The same figure as the summit line above and the 7-day forecast.

The line Our line: 6 mm in the day, where our scorer counts a day as soaking. We read rainfall, never river levels: becks in spate.

Open-Meteo’s forecast. It says nothing about rain already in the ground.

Also checked cold: feels like 0 °C, no ice or snow forecast. Under a line is not the same as fine: it means only that these figures are under the lines we use.

Not in these tiles Lightning, river levels, snow or ice already lying, and the ground under your feet. A tile cannot see them, so an empty space here never means they are absent.

Snow figures with a second opinion: Powered by Met Office data

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

Wainwrights are scored for walking conditions each morning from the Met Office’s UK forecast model, read for each summit through Open-Meteo; the forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Routes up Loft Crag

Choose the way up before the car park: these two routes start from two places, and the last two rows give the parking and bus at each route’s own start. Full maps further down.

Compared	Langdale Pikes Round	Langdale Horseshoe
Starts from	Great Langdale (New Dungeon Ghyll)	Great Langdale (New/Old Dungeon Ghyll)
Distance and climb	12.12 km, 884 m of climb	20.9 km, 1,770 m of climb
Time, fast to steady	~3¾–5¼ h	~7–9½ h
Scrambling	Easy scramble: Pike of Stickle's summit rocks, up and back (km 9.1–9.3). Avoid Jack's Rake on Pavey Ark unless you're a confident scrambler — the walkers' route reaches the same summit.	Easy scramble: Pike of Stickle's summit rocks (km 5.1–5.2). A short, awkward rock step that turns a walk into a scramble and regularly stops people dead.
Exposure	Moderate	Hard
Navigation	Hard	Hard
Steepest stretch	Climb of about 39% at 1.0 km (Severe)	Descent of about 40% at 17.9 km (Severe)
After the summit	Over Thorn Crag	Over Pike of Stickle, Black Crags (Mickleden), Rossett Pike, Bowfell, Shelter Crags, Crinkle Crags - Gunson Knott (Fifth Crinkle), Crinkle Crags - Fourth Crinkle, Crinkle Crags - Long Top (Second Crinkle), Crinkle Crags South Top (First Crinkle), Cold Pike and Pike of Blisco
Walked or planned	Walked by Lee, June 2024	Planned: drawn, not yet walked
Car park at the start	New Dungeon Ghyll (LDNPA, paid)	Stickle Ghyll (NT, paid)
Bus to the start	516 at the start	516 at the start

Times run from fast to steady pace (Naismith’s rule). Scrambling quotes each route’s own notes; “not mentioned” means they do not say, not that the ground has none. Each route’s page has its map, stages and GPX.

Distance, climb and the steepest stretch are measured from each route’s GPX track; the other grades are set on the ground, judged from the map or estimated from OpenStreetMap, and each route page says which. How we check →

Is Loft Crag hard to climb?

The top is small and abrupt and the last few steps are rocky, but there is no scrambling on the ordinary line — it is the gentlest of the three main Langdale Pikes to stand on.

What is beneath it is another matter. Loft Crag sits directly above Gimmer Crag, one of the great Lakeland climbing buttresses, so the drop off its southern side is immediate and total. Keep back from that edge. Our Langdale Pikes round is 12.1 km with 884 m of ascent, rated Severe overall for its steepness, with navigation hard.

How we check →

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 682 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast

Tue 27 Oct

11° / 5°

58 mph

12.7 mm (100%)

Wed 28 Oct

8° / 5°

43 mph

17.9 mm (100%)

Thu 29 Oct

8° / 6°

28 mph

0.8 mm (75%)

Fri 30 Oct

7° / 5°

25 mph

0.9 mm (8%)

Sat 31 Oct

7° / 4°

6 mph

3.0 mm (6%)

Sun 1 Nov

7° / 2°

14 mph

0.0 mm (2%)

Mon 2 Nov

5° / -1°

9 mph

0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 20:59 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (opens in new tab)

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

Parking & buses for Loft Crag

Parking

Route starts first, then the car parks nearest the summit, which are not always a way up.

New Dungeon Ghyll (LDNPA, paid) — 0.1 km from the start of Langdale Pikes Round (straight line)

Walking base for Sergeant Man, High Raise (High White Stones), Thunacar Knott and Pavey Ark — the 'Langdale Pikes Round' route starts 127 m away. Also serves 'Langdale Horseshoe'. Fees: pay and display at the machine; whether it takes cards is not published (the Authority's machine records, FOI/2026.500).

Directions When people arrive, and what it costs →Something changed here?

Public toilets (~133 m straight line) — Free

Stickle Ghyll (NT, paid) — 0.1 km from the start of Langdale Horseshoe (straight line)

Walking base for Pavey Ark, Harrison Stickle, Thorn Crag and Loft Crag — the 'Langdale Horseshoe' route starts 67 m away. Also serves 'Langdale Pikes Round'. Paid National Trust car park - the prices we used to show here came from an aggregator rather than the Trust, so we no longer publish a figure; check the machine on arrival, and members should bring their card (National Trust car-park list, checked August 2026). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged). Height barrier (community-reported). Direct start up Stickle Ghyll for the Langdale Pikes.

Typically full before 10:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 9 August 2026.

Directions Something changed here?

If it is full: Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) (1.0 km); Blea Tarn (NT, paid) (3.2 km, 93 m up)

Public toilets (~147 m straight line) — Free

Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 1.4 km from summit (straight line)

Head of Great Langdale — Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco, the Langdale Pikes. Free for NT members (checked August 2026).

Typically full before 10:00 on fine weekends, Apr-Oct — Lee McCoy, local observation, 9 August 2026.

Directions Something changed here?

If it is full: Stickle Ghyll (NT, paid) (1.0 km, 24 m up); Great Langdale, valley road verge (free) (0.8 km) a few spaces only; Side Pike (verge) (0.8 km) a few spaces only

Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel Sticklebarn

2 more places to park near Loft Crag

Great Langdale, valley road verge (free) — 1.8 km from summit (straight line)

On the valley road, between the Stickle Ghyll and Old Dungeon Ghyll car parks. The 'Langdale Horseshoe' route starts 370 m away.

Directions Something changed here?

Side Pike (verge) — 1.9 km from summit (straight line)

0.9 km from Side Pike.

Directions Something changed here?

Positions are approximate.

Of the pay-and-display machine tickets sold at New Dungeon Ghyll from 17 August 2024 to 31 March 2026, 33% were bought before 10am (our count of FOI/2026.500 ticket data). Contains public sector information provided by the Lake District National Park Authority and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.

Buses

The 516 stops at New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, a 140 m walk from the start of Langdale Pikes Round — a route we rate Severe overall (hardest: steepness). As timetabled from 27 October to 1 November. Towards Kendal (516): Tuesday to Thursday, Sunday 20:13; Friday and Saturday 22:33. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 23 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 516 “Langdale Rambler”

Ambleside – Skelwith Bridge – Elterwater – New Dungeon Ghyll – Old Dungeon Ghyll

Catch it from: Ambleside · Windermere (change at Ambleside)

The Langdale bus — Pikes, Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco all walkable from the Dungeon Ghyll stops. Seasonal frequency varies; check before relying on the last bus back.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat

Hazards on Loft Crag

Hazard & Incident Information for Loft Crag

Checked by Lee McCoy, 14 June 2026. Draws on published material from Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team. Editorial background, not a live callout feed.

Hazard: Moderate

The middle summit of the Langdale Pikes, a small, abrupt rocky top perched directly above the magnificent buttress of Gimmer Crag — one of the great Lakeland climbing cliffs. The summit is gained easily enough, but it sits at the lip of a serious drop, the south side is craggy and broken, and the Pikes plateau is easy to misjudge in mist. Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team covers this ground.

Gimmer Crag (the drop below the summit): The small abrupt summit stands right above Gimmer Crag, a sheer climbing buttress falling to Langdale. Keep well back from the southern edge near the top, especially in cloud or wind — and if scrambling on the south side, be aware climbers may be on the crag below.
Craggy south side & summit rocks: The south flank around Thorn Crag and Gimmer is craggy and broken, with scrambling lines that are steeper and more serious than they look. Keep to the walkers' path to the col and summit; don't drift onto the steep rock, particularly when wet.
Plateau navigation among the Pikes: Loft Crag, Pike o' Stickle and Harrison Stickle cluster together with steep ground to Langdale and Mickleden between them. In mist it's easy to confuse the tops or drift toward an edge — navigate by compass.

Who should attempt this fell: Loft Crag is an easy summit with a serious edge: keep well back from the lip above Gimmer Crag, and resist the steeper scrambling lines on the south side unless you're experienced and equipped. Navigate carefully among the closely-set Pikes in cloud, mind the steep drops to Langdale, and treat the summit rocks and edges as full winter terrain when iced.

What to watch for: Walkers straying over the edge above Gimmer Crag near the summit · Scrambling difficulty or falls on the craggy south side · Navigation errors and edge-drift on the Langdale Pikes plateau in cloud · Winter ice on the summit rocks and edges

Local Mountain Rescue: Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team (opens in new tab)

Safety: Always check current conditions, carry proper navigation equipment, and seek qualified instruction before heading onto the fells. In an emergency, call 999, ask for Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Report incorrect information (opens in new tab)

Navigating in cloud

Severe

Of the three things our terrain model measures, the highest reading here is the amount of steep ground within half a kilometre of the summit. A serious place to be caught in cloud: carry map and compass (or GPS) and know how to use them, or save it for a clear day.

In winter — snow, whiteout, cornices, buried features — every top demands full winter navigation skills whatever its band, and a broad, gentle summit can be the worst place of all. See walking in bad weather and the navigation guide.

How Loft Crag compares with all 214: the Clag Index (experimental).

If you need Mountain Rescue

Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.

Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.

If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.

From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (opens in new tab) (read 26 October 2026).

Map, GPX and nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).

Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.

Birketts within 3 km of Loft Crag

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits. Distances are straight lines: check the ground and access on a map before adding one.

0.2 km EThorn Crag644 m · Central

2.0 km WSWWhite Stones - The Band568 m · Southern

2.2 km NNECodale Head732 m · Central

2.4 km SESide Pike362 m · Southern

2.4 km WNWBlack Crags (Mickleden)588 m · Southern

2.5 km WNWBuck Pike (Mickleden)606 m · Southern

2.9 km NLow White Stones731 m · Central

Routes over Loft Crag

Langdale Horseshoe

Summits: Pavey Ark Harrison Stickle Thorn CragLoft CragPike of Stickle Black Crags (Mickleden)Rossett Pike Bowfell Shelter Crags Crinkle Crags - Gunson Knott (Fifth Crinkle)Crinkle Crags - Fourth Crinkle Crinkle Crags - Long Top (Second Crinkle)Crinkle Crags South Top (First Crinkle)Cold Pike Pike of Blisco

Download GPX Planned route · not yet walked

Picked for its light in: June, August

Warnings: The Bad Step (Crinkle Crags, Long Top). A short, awkward rock step that turns a walk into a scramble and regularly stops people dead. There is a bypass path round its west side, on your right as you come south off Long Top — use it if you are unsure. Do not attempt Jack’s Rake on Pavey Ark unless you know what you are taking on. It is a graded scramble with real exposure, not a path. The walkers’ line goes round. 21 km, 1,660 m and fifteen tops. This is a full, committing day. Start early, and decide your turn-back time before you leave the car. The Crinkles are the classic place to descend the wrong side in cloud. Know which valley you want before you are in it. Bowfell: The rocky top has crags on several sides and the paths are not always obvious in mist; know your bearing for the descent before you set off. Loft Crag: The small abrupt summit stands right above Gimmer Crag, a sheer climbing buttress falling to Langdale. Keep well back from the southern edge near the top, especially in cloud or wind — and if scrambling on the south side, be aware climbers may be on the crag below.

From the hazard notes for Loft Crag · Bowfell, each with its sources.

Route guide: Langdale Horseshoe →

Langdale Pikes Round

Summits: Sergeant Man High Raise (High White Stones)Thunacar Knott Pavey Ark Harrison Stickle Pike of StickleLoft CragThorn Crag

Download GPX Walked by Lee, June 2024

Best season: Any season in good conditions; the plateau behind the Pikes is featureless in cloud.

Warnings: Avoid Jack's Rake on Pavey Ark unless you're a confident scrambler — the walkers' route reaches the same summit. Boggy ground and confusing navigation on the High Raise and Sergeant Man plateau in mist. Steep, rocky ground around the Pikes. Loft Crag: The small abrupt summit stands right above Gimmer Crag, a sheer climbing buttress falling to Langdale. Keep well back from the southern edge near the top, especially in cloud or wind — and if scrambling on the south side, be aware climbers may be on the crag below. The boggy plateau has few landmarks, and the sheer drops of Pavey Ark and Harrison Stickle lie close by. In mist a wrong bearing off Thunacar Knott can take you to a cliff edge. Navigate carefully by compass and know where the crag edges are before you move.

From the hazard notes for Loft Crag, each with its sources.

Route guide: Langdale Pikes Round →

Every line here is a guide, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate for yourself and carry a map and compass. How to use this guide.

On the hill: terrain and water on Loft Crag

Water & shelter on the way up

On the Langdale Horseshoe route:

possible water source (5 m off the line) possible water source (6 m off the line) possible water source (81 m off the line) toilets (10 m off the line) toilets (11 m off the line) New Dungeon Ghyll (144 m from the start, straight line)

On the Langdale Pikes Round route:

possible water source (7 m off the line) shelter (weather shelter, mapped, not checked; 6 m off the line) New Dungeon Ghyll (110 m from the start, straight line)

Treat water from the fell before you drink it. A mapped point is not proof the water is drinkable, so carry your own or use a supply you know is safe. Never drink untreated from a beck, stream or tarn — even clear-looking hill water can carry giardia or cryptosporidium from livestock upstream and leave you seriously ill. Use a treatment method suited to what might be in the water, and follow the device’s own instructions. Boiling and ordinary filters do not make water with dissolved metals or chemicals safe: where that is possible, choose another source.

About Loft Crag

Wainwright included it as a separate fell, noting its craggy character and the fine views it gives north towards High Raise. Gimmer Crag, just below the summit on its southern side, is a rock-climbing crag, not a walkers' route. The summit is easily included on any Langdale Pikes circuit, adding little extra distance but completing the full set of four Pikes for the thorough Wainwright bagger.

My Strava hikes over Loft Crag

1 logged hike pass over this summit:

8 Wainwrights today - had some catching up to do! (opens in new tab) — 14.5 km · 1013 m ascent · 4h 23m moving · 1 June 2024

Data from Strava.

Classifications & hill data

Is Loft Crag a Wainwright?

Loft Crag is a Wainwright. It is also on the Birkett list, the Synge list, the Nuttall list and the Fellranger list.

Selected lists

682 m

Height

2,237 ft

In feet

NY 2774 0713

Grid ref

This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.

The summit is also a Birkett.

Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →

The view from Loft Crag

The 360° skyline from Loft Crag

A computed 360° skyline — every visible named top labelled by distance and bearing, from the terrain model in perfect clarity, not photographed. Drag to pan; reveal the far four-nations horizon.

drag to pan · arrow keys

The skyline as a list, by direction

North: Skiddaw South Top (22 km), Skiddaw Middle Top (22 km), Skiddaw (22 km), Skiddaw North Top (22 km)
North-east: Great Rigg (8 km)
East: Dove Crag (10 km), Red Screes (12 km), Caudale Moor (14 km), Stony Cove Pike (14 km), Thornthwaite Crag (16 km), Ill Bell (16 km), High Street (17 km)
South: Wetherlam (6 km), Black Sails (6 km), Swirl How (7 km), Grey Friar (7 km), Great How (7 km), The Old Man of Coniston (9 km)
South-west: Crinkle Crags (3 km), Crinkle Crags (4 km), Crinkle Crags (4 km), Crinkle Crags (4 km), Little Stand (5 km)
West: Esk Pike (4 km), Allen Crags (4 km), Great End (5 km), Scafell Pike (6 km)
North-west: Looking Steads (4 km), Glaramara (5 km), Green Gable (7 km), Great Gable (7 km), Dale Head (10 km), High Stile (13 km), High Stile (13 km), Sail (15 km), Crag Hill (16 km), Grasmoor (17 km), Grisedale Pike (17 km), Sand Hill (17 km), Hopegill Head (18 km)

On the clearest days the far horizon adds: Tinto (131 km, Scotland), Green Lowther (112 km, Scotland), Queensberry (97 km, Scotland), Culter Fell (124 km, Scotland), Great Whernside (80 km, England), Manod Mawr (172 km, Wales), Winter Hill (100 km, England), Gathersnow Hill (121 km, Scotland).

Computed from Copernicus GLO-30 terrain; distant tops from the Database of British and Irish Hills v18.4 (opens in new tab) (CC BY 4.0). See how we compute the view · and the summit intervisibility report below.

Sunrise and sunset on Loft Crag

Loft Crag waits for the sun. Its longest wait of the modelled year falls at midsummer, when the sun is up for 50 minutes before it clears this skyline — first light 05:27 against an almanac sunrise of 04:37. You are standing in shadow while the valley below is already lit. The sun comes up to the north-east from here (55.3°), and the skyline on that bearing stands at 5.12°.

Midsummer. The filled shape is the skyline as seen from the summit; the line is the sun’s path. Where they meet is first light — everything left of that point is the wait.

Times for 2026, in Lakeland clock time (GMT in winter, BST in summer) — and model outputs rather than observations.
	First light	Almanac sunrise	Difference
Midsummer	05:27 BST ±5.0 min	04:37	+50 min
Equinox	06:15 GMT ±5.0 min	06:16	-1 min
Midwinter	08:27 GMT ±5.0 min	08:33	-6 min

The northern horizon stands at about 0.99° from here.

Last light — when the sun leaves Loft Crag

Loft Crag loses the sun early. Its earliest evening of the modelled year falls on 1 October, when last light is 26 minutes before almanac sunset — 18:23 against 18:49. The sun goes down to the west from here (260.1°), and the skyline on that bearing stands at 3.4°.

The evening of the same three days. A negative difference means a ridge takes the sun before the valley loses it.
	Last light	Almanac sunset	Difference
Midsummer	21:42 BST ±5.0 min	21:52	-10 min
Equinox	18:04 GMT ±5.0 min	18:26	-22 min
Midwinter	15:31 GMT ±5.0 min	15:49	-18 min

These are daylight figures, not a descent plan: the light goes on fading for a good while after the sun leaves, and going down in it is a decision about your own ground and party, not about this table.

What you can see from Loft Crag

On a clear day — computed sightlines, curvature- and refraction-corrected.

58Wainwrights in view+14 marginal

57 kmFurthest sightlineIngleborough

2Sea in viewSolway Firth, Morecambe Bay

Far horizons

Solway Firth bay/estuaryNNW · 58 km in view
Ingleborough Yorkshire DalesSE · 57 km clear
Whernside Yorkshire DalesESE · 52 km clear
Morecambe Bay bay/estuarySSE · 39 km in view

All 58 Wainwrights in clear view (nearest first)

Pike of Stickle, Harrison Stickle, Thunacar Knott, Blea Rigg, Rossett Pike, Pike of Blisco, Bowfell, Lingmoor Fell (Brown How), Crinkle Crags - Long Top (Second Crinkle), Cold Pike, Esk Pike, Allen Crags, Glaramara, Silver How, Great End, Rosthwaite Fell - Bessyboot, Wetherlam, Scafell Pike, Great Carrs, Swirl How, Grey Friar, Green Gable, Loughrigg Fell, Stone Arthur, Great Gable, Holme Fell, Nab Scar, Heron Pike (Rydal), Black Fell, Great Rigg, The Old Man of Coniston (Coniston Old Man), Dow Crag, Low Pike, Dale Head, High Pike (Scandale), High Spy, Dove Crag, Red Screes, Baystones (Wansfell), Cat Bells (Catbells), High Stile, Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor), Ard Crags, Causey Pike, Scar Crags, Sail, Sour Howes, Crag Hill (Eel Crag), Thornthwaite Crag, Ill Bell, Yoke, Sallows, Grasmoor, High Street, Grisedale Pike, Hopegill Head, Barf, Lord's Seat

How the view from Loft Crag compares with all 214 — the View Report: every Wainwright ranked by what you can see from the top.

How the skyline, light and sightlines are computed

Computed, not photographed. First light is the first minute the sun’s upper limb clears this summit’s own skyline and last light the last minute it is still clear of it, both solved against the 360° horizon profile behind The View from Loft Crag. Almanac sunrise and sunset are the flat-horizon convention. Every time carries a ± band from the 30 m elevation model — it smooths arêtes and cornices, so nothing here claims better than five minutes.

Sightlines from the Copernicus GLO-30 elevation model, which is a surface model: each 30 m cell holds the top of whatever stands there, trees and buildings included, rather than bare ground. Corrected for the Earth’s curvature and average atmospheric refraction. “Distant” sightlines and any over 100 km depend on exceptionally clear air. Modelled from Copernicus GLO-30 open elevation data — a guide to the view, not a guarantee of any single one.

Places to stay near this fell

From Great Langdale: 3 places in Grasmere

Frequently asked questions about Loft Crag

Is Loft Crag hard to climb? Answered above.

Questions from Google’s “People also ask”. · Last updated 2026-08-30 · Suggest a question or correction (opens in new tab)

Loft Crag

Summit conditions on Loft Crag

Wind on the top

Cloud on the top

Rain, and the becks

Routes up Loft Crag

Is Loft Crag hard to climb?

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Parking & buses for Loft Crag

Parking

Buses

Hazards on Loft Crag

Hazard & Incident Information for Loft Crag

Navigating in cloud

If you need Mountain Rescue

Map, GPX and nearby Birketts

Birketts within 3 km of Loft Crag

Routes over Loft Crag

On the hill: terrain and water on Loft Crag

Water & shelter on the way up

About Loft Crag

My Strava hikes over Loft Crag

Classifications & hill data

Is Loft Crag a Wainwright?

Selected lists

The view from Loft Crag

The 360° skyline from Loft Crag

Sunrise and sunset on Loft Crag

Last light — when the sun leaves Loft Crag

What you can see from Loft Crag

Places to stay near this fell

Frequently asked questions about Loft Crag

Other fells near Loft Crag