⛰️ Low Pike

508 m · Wainwright — Eastern Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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508 mWainwright — Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+1 bonus Birkett within 3 km

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.

1.8 km WNWHeron Pike North Top (Rydal Fell)621 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Low Pike (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Pelter Bridge, Rydal (paid) — 1.9 km from summit (straight line)
For Loughrigg and the Rydal side of the Fairfield Horseshoe.
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White Moss (paid) — 2.7 km from summit (straight line)
Between Rydal and Grasmere — Loughrigg, Silver How, Heron Pike.
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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

Stagecoach 555
Kendal – Staveley – Windermere – Ambleside – Rydal – Grasmere – Thirlmere (Wythburn & Swirls) – Keswick
Catch it from: Windermere · Ambleside
Year-round, roughly hourly. The backbone bus of the A591 — ideal for Helvellyn (Wythburn/Swirls), Fairfield, the Central fells and anything around Grasmere/Rydal. From Penrith, take the X4/X5 to Keswick and change.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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