Rest Dodd
Rest Dodd at 696m (2,283ft) is an isolated summit above Patterdale, separated from the main High Street range by the hollow of Boardale Hause.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 696 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Tue 28 Jul): 15° to 13°C, gusts to 36 mph, 9.2 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 28 Jul 2026, 04:58 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 696 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
About the walk
Rest Dodd
Routes up Rest Dodd
Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: Hartsop village (free, donation), about 2.4 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Rest Dodd (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.
Routes over Rest Dodd
✎️ This is the antidote to Helvellyn on an August Saturday. The Nab is one of the least-visited Wainwrights precisely because of the deer forest, and the reward for the boggy trudge out to it is a summit almost nobody stands on. Angletarn Pikes and its tarn are the prettiest thing in the Far Eastern fells.
✎️ Planned route — drawn but not personally walked or checked yet.
A planned line is a suggestion, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate independently and carry a map & compass.
The View from Rest Dodd
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.
What you can see from Rest Dodd, by direction
- East: High Raise (2 km)
- South-east: Rampsgill Head (1 km)
- South: Thornthwaite Crag (4 km), Stony Cove Pike (4 km)
- South-west: Red Screes (6 km), Dove Crag (7 km), Great Carrs (21 km), Swirl How (21 km), Great How (21 km), Grey Friar (22 km), Brim Fell (22 km), The Old Man of Coniston (22 km)
- West: St Sunday Crag (6 km), Hart Crag (7 km), Fairfield (8 km), Dollywaggon Pike (9 km), Catstye Cam (9 km), Nethermost Pike (9 km), High Crag (9 km), Helvellyn (9 km), Helvellyn Lower Man (10 km), White Side (10 km), Glaramara (19 km), Green Gable (22 km), Great Gable (22 km)
- North-west: Green Side (10 km), Raise (10 km), Stybarrow Dodd (10 km), Great Dodd (11 km), Blencathra (18 km), Gategill Fell Top (18 km), Knowe Crags (18 km), Atkinson Pike (18 km), Skiddaw Lesser Man (22 km), Skiddaw Little Man (22 km), Skiddaw South Top (23 km), Skiddaw Middle Top (23 km), Skiddaw (23 km), Skiddaw North Top (23 km), Broad End (24 km)
On the clearest days the far horizon adds: Broad Law (114 km, Scotland), Tinto (130 km, Scotland), White Coomb (105 km, Scotland), Ettrick Pen (97 km, Scotland), Wisp Hill (86 km, Scotland), Roan Fell (80 km, Scotland), Cauldcleuch Head (87 km, Scotland), Dun Rig (119 km, Scotland).
Computed from terrain in perfect clarity, not photographed · distances are straight-line.
Computed from Copernicus GLO-30 terrain; distant tops from the Database of British and Irish Hills (opens in new tab) (CC BY 4.0). See how we compute the view · and the summit intervisibility report below.
What you can see from Rest Dodd
On a clear day — computed sightlines, curvature- and refraction-corrected.- Cross Fell North Pennines
All 59 Wainwrights in clear view (nearest first)
The Knott (High Street), Rampsgill Head, High Raise (High Street), The Nab, Brock Crags (Wainwright), Gray Crag, Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top), High Street, Hartsop Dodd, Beda Fell (Beda Head), Thornthwaite Crag, Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor), Arnison Crag, Place Fell, Steel Knotts (Pikeawassa - Steel Knotts), High Hartsop Dodd, Loadpot Hill, Hartsop Above How (Gill Crag - Hartsop Above How), Birks, Middle Dodd, Little Hart Crag (Little Hart Crag - West Top), Red Screes, Hallin Fell, St Sunday Crag, Glenridding Dodd, Dove Crag, Hart Crag, Birkhouse Moor, High Pike (Scandale), Fairfield, Sheffield Pike, Gowbarrow Fell (Wainwright summit), Dollywaggon Pike, Catstye Cam, Nethermost Pike, Helvellyn, Hart Side, Raise, White Side, Stybarrow Dodd, Little Mell Fell, Great Dodd, Great Mell Fell, Souther Fell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Glaramara, Wetherlam, Bowscale Fell, Great Carrs, Swirl How, Skiddaw Little Man, Grey Friar, Green Gable, Carrock Fell, Brim Fell, Great Gable, The Old Man of Coniston (Coniston Old Man), Skiddaw, Bakestall
How Rest Dodd’s view compares with all 214 — the View Report: every Wainwright ranked by what you can see from the top.
Sightlines from a bare-earth terrain model (forests and buildings not included), 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.
Best parking to hike Rest Dodd
Where we have the data, each parking spot also shows the nearest public toilets and facilities (cafés, pubs, shops).
Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.
Tip: pan and zoom the interactive map at the top of this page to spot other potential parking near your route.
Water & shelter on the way up
On the Angletarn Pikes and the Martindale round route:
On-route facilities © OpenStreetMap contributors, per route — an absent marker doesn’t mean none.
Buses to Rest Dodd from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazard & Incident Information for Rest Dodd
A quiet, rounded fell in the remote Martindale country, with a broad level top scarred by deep peat hags — some deeper than a person — and steep, rough flanks dropping to Bannerdale and Rampsgill. It has no real crags, but the bog, the featureless top and the sheer remoteness make it a navigation fell, especially on the awkward boggy link out to The Nab. Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team covers this ground.
- Deep peat hags & boggy ground: The broad top and the ridge toward The Nab are cut by deep peat hags and bog, tiring and disorientating to cross and a trap in mist. Pick your line carefully, keep a compass bearing, and don't assume the easiest-looking ground is safe or quick.
- Steep, rough flanks: The sides drop steeply and roughly into Bannerdale and Rampsgill. Keep to the higher ground and don't be tempted to cut down the steep flanks, particularly in poor visibility.
- Remoteness (Martindale): This is out-of-the-way country a long way from any road, little visited and with no shelter. A navigation error, bog mishap or injury becomes serious here — carry full kit and navigation, and allow plenty of time and daylight.
Most common causes: Navigation errors among the peat hags and on the featureless top in cloud · Floundering or tiring badly in deep bog, especially toward The Nab · Slips on the steep, rough flanks · Difficulties magnified by remoteness and few other walkers about
Local Mountain Rescue: Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team (opens in new tab) · Reviewed 14 Jun 2026
Safety: Hazard guidance compiled from published Mountain Rescue reports and well-documented accident history - editorial background, not a live feed of callouts. 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.
Navigating Rest Dodd in cloud
StraightforwardA rough, rocky summit ringed by crags, with no single obvious way off in poor visibility. Navigation here is relatively straightforward even in cloud — but carry map and compass and know how to use them; a low score never means “safe”.
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 Rest Dodd compares with all 214 — the Clag Index: navigating in cloud. A relative, deliberately cautious guide; the site can’t navigate for you.
Other fells near Rest Dodd
- Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top)
- Arthur's Pike
- Baystones (Wansfell)
- Beda Fell (Beda Head)
- Bonscale Pike
- Branstree
- Brock Crags (Wainwright)
- Froswick
- Gray Crag
- Grey Crag (Sleddale Fell)
- Hallin Fell
- Harter Fell (Mardale)
- Hartsop Dodd
- High Raise (High Street)
- High Street
- Ill Bell
- Kentmere Pike
- Kidsty Pike
- Loadpot Hill
- Mardale Ill Bell
- Place Fell
- Rampsgill Head
- Sallows
- Selside Pike
- Shipman Knotts
- Sour Howes
- Steel Knotts (Pikeawassa - Steel Knotts)
- Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor)
- Tarn Crag (Sleddale)
- The Knott (High Street)
- The Nab
- Thornthwaite Crag
- Troutbeck Tongue
- Wether Hill
- Yoke
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