Stickle Pike
Stickle Pike at 375m (1,230ft) is a small, rocky summit above the Dunnerdale Fells, its distinctive pointed profile visible from the Duddon valley below.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 375 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Sat 12 Sep): 16° to 9°C, gusts to 44 mph, 28.1 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 12 Sep 2026, 18:50 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 375 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
Stickle Pike at a glance
Routes up Stickle Pike
Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is Stickle Pike a Wainwright?
Stickle Pike is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells, not one of the 214 in the Pictorial Guides. It is also on the Birkett list, the Synge list, the Fellranger list and the HuMP list.
Where do you park for Stickle Pike?
The nearest car park we hold is Stickle Pike, north-east (layby), about 0.6 km from the summit in a straight line. The next is Stickle Pike (layby), 0.6 km out. We only look within 2.5 km, measured straight-line: over longer distances a road may cross a pass and the drive bears no relation to the line.
How hard is Stickle Pike?
The shortest way up we hold is Dunnerdale Fells — 8.6 km, 484 m of ascent, about 2.5 hours. On our scale its hardest axis is navigation — Hard.
All axes: navigation: Hard · steepness: Hard · exposure: Moderate · length: Moderate · terrain: Moderate.
Parking & buses for Stickle Pike
Best parking to hike Stickle Pike
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.
Vehicles are left entirely at their owner’s risk. We list places people park; we cannot vouch for any of them. Judge it on the day: take valuables with you, leave nothing on show, and if a spot feels wrong when you get there, park somewhere else.
Getting to Stickle Pike by bus
The nearest bus stop we hold is the 505 at Coniston, outside John Ruskin School, 11.6 km of walking from the start — not realistically reachable without a car.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Stickle Pike
No hazard card for this fell. The usual open-fell rules apply: check the forecast, carry a map and compass, and turn back in cloud if the ground is not what you expected.
Map & nearby Birketts
Skip mapFree mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.
Nearest parking: Stickle Pike, north-east (layby), about 0.6 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Stickle Pike (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 Stickle Pike
✎️ 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. How to use this guide.