⛰️ Scafell Pike

📖 Key Information

England's highest mountain, Scafell Pike stands at 978m (3,209ft) and is the supreme objective for every Lakeland walker. Wainwright treated it with great respect in his Southern Fells guide, though he was quick to note it is a rough, stony plateau rather than a shapely peak — the scenery comes not from the summit itself but from the vast panorama around it: the Isle of Man, Ireland, Wales and dozens of Lakeland summits on a clear day. Three classic approaches serve it — from Wasdale, from Borrowdale via Esk Hause, and from Great Langdale via the Band — each a superb mountain day in its own right.

🎯 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.

🦶 My hikes over Scafell Pike (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

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

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

No regular bus serves the start points for this fell — this is one for the car (or a long approach from the nearest served valley). The nearest hubs are Penrith (X4/X5 & 508), Ambleside and Windermere (555, 505, 516).

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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Other fells in this region

• Allen Crags
• Black Fell
• Bowfell
• Brim Fell
• Cold Pike
• Crinkle Crags - Long Top (Second Crinkle)
• Dow Crag
• Esk Pike
• Glaramara
• Great Carrs
• Great End
• Green Crag
• Grey Friar
• Hard Knott
• Harter Fell (Eskdale)
• Holme Fell
• Lingmell
• Lingmoor Fell (Brown How)
• Pike of Blisco
• Rossett Pike
• Scafell
• Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit)
• Slight Side
• Swirl How
• The Old Man of Coniston (Coniston Old Man)
• Wetherlam