⛰️ Red Pike (Buttermere)

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

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755 mWainwright — Western Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+6 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Red Pike (Buttermere) at 755m (2,477ft) is the northernmost of the three great Buttermere ridge summits, its summit giving one of the finest views of Crummock Water and Buttermere from the Western Fells. Wainwright described the view north from Red Pike looking down to Scale Beck and across Crummock Water to Mellbreak as one of the finest lake views in western Lakeland. The descent via Scale Force — Lakeland's highest waterfall — is a classic route. Most naturally part of the High Stile ridge traverse from Buttermere via Scarth Gap.

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.

0.4 km NEDodd (Buttermere)641 m · North Western
1.1 km ESEHigh Stile (Grey Crag - High Stile)806 m · Western
1.1 km WLittle Dodd (Ennerdale)590 m · Western
2.6 km NNWScale Knott338 m · Western
2.8 km WNWGale Fell518 m · Western
3.0 km ENEHigh Snockrigg526 m · North Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Red Pike (Buttermere) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Buttermere village (NT, paid) — 2.1 km from summit (straight line)
For Red Pike, High Stile, Robinson, Rannerdale Knotts.
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Gatesgarth Farm, Buttermere (paid) — 3.2 km from summit (straight line)
Farm car park at the foot of Haystacks, Fleetwith Pike and the High Stile ridge.
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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 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 from Windermere/Ambleside or X4/X5 from Penrith)
Seasonal (roughly Easter–October). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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