⛰️ Pike of Stickle

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

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708 mWainwright — Central Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+7 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Pike of Stickle at 709m (2,326ft) is the most distinctive of the Langdale Pikes — a soaring, pointed summit of volcanic rock that thrusts skyward above the head of Langdale. Wainwright described it as the most shapely and exciting of the four Langdale summits, its steep sides and pointed top making it recognisable from miles away. The ascent from Stickle Tarn is a short, steep scramble, and the summit views — particularly down into the deep hollow of Dungeon Ghyll and across to Harrison Stickle — are magnificent. Near the summit is one of the finest Neolithic stone axe factories in Britain.

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 ESEThorn Crag644 m · Central
1.9 km SWWhite Stones - The Band568 m · Southern
2.0 km WNWBlack Crags (Mickleden)588 m · Southern
2.2 km WBuck Pike (Mickleden)606 m · Southern
2.3 km NECodale Head732 m · Central
2.7 km SESide Pike362 m · Central
2.8 km NNELow White Stones731 m · Central

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Pike of Stickle (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 1.9 km from summit (straight line)
Head of Great Langdale — Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco, the Langdale Pikes.
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Stickle Ghyll / New Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 2.9 km from summit (straight line)
Direct start up Stickle Ghyll for the Langdale Pikes.
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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 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 or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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