⛰️ Pen

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

762 mBirkett — Southern (not a Wainwright summit)+8 bonus Birketts 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.

0.6 km NNEIll Crag931 m · Southern
0.9 km NNWBroad Crag935 m · Southern
1.3 km SEHigh Gait Crags572 m · Southern
1.4 km EPike de Bield810 m · Southern
1.9 km SSEScar Lathing439 m · Southern
2.4 km SSWHigh Scarth487 m · Southern
2.5 km SSEThrostlehow Crag404 m · Southern
2.9 km SSilverybield Crag395 m · Southern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Pen (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Hardknott Pass (roadside pull-ins) — 5.3 km from summit (straight line)
Limited pull-ins near the pass summit for Hard Knott and Harter Fell. Don't block passing places.
Directions ↗
Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (free verge) — 6.1 km from summit (straight line)
Free verge parking on the Seathwaite lane — the honeypot start for the Scafells, Great Gable and Glaramara. Arrive very early.
Directions ↗

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 78 “Borrowdale Rambler”
Keswick – Lodore – Grange – Rosthwaite – Seatoller
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 or X4/X5)
Year-round, frequent in season. Serves all the Borrowdale starts — Glaramara, the Scafells and Great Gable via Seathwaite (alight Seatoller, 20 min walk up the lane).

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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