⛰️ Scout Scar (Wainwright summit)

233 m · Outlying Fell — South Lakeland · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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233 mOutlying Fell — South Lakelandsummit is not a Birkett top+0 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Scout Scar at 235m (771ft) is the dramatic limestone escarpment above Kendal, its long, airy ridge giving outstanding views of the Lakeland fells, the Pennines and Morecambe Bay. Wainwright included it in his Outlying Fells guide, praising the remarkable panorama — one of the finest ridge-edge views in the north of England. The traverse from Kendal along the scarp edge is a classic South Lakeland walk accessible from the town.

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

🎯 Bonus Birketts within 3 km

No bonus Birketts within 3 km — every Birkett near here is already a Wainwright summit, so just enjoy the walk.

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Scout Scar (Wainwright summit) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Scout Scar / Underbarrow Road, Kendal (free) — 0.8 km from summit (straight line)
Free car park on the racecourse road — Scout Scar and Cunswick Scar in an hour or two.
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Staveley village (paid/free mix) — 6.3 km from summit (straight line)
For Reston Scar, Hugill Fell and Potter Fell.
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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 555
Kendal – Staveley – Windermere – Ambleside – Rydal – Grasmere – Thirlmere (Wythburn & Swirls) – Keswick
Catch it from: Windermere · Ambleside
Year-round, roughly hourly. The backbone bus of the A591 — ideal for Helvellyn (Wythburn/Swirls), Fairfield, the Central fells and anything around Grasmere/Rydal. From Penrith, take the X4/X5 to Keswick and change.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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