Stonesty Pike
Stonesty Pike at 765m (2,510ft) is a high Birkett top on the rocky ridge between Pike o' Blisco and Crinkle Crags in the Southern Fells, giving views across the Great Langdale valley and towards the Scafell group.
Is it worth going? — Today’s conditions & 7-day summit forecast
Modelled guidance for the 765 m summit. Always check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.
On the summit today (Fri 11 Sep): 11° to 8°C, gusts to 28 mph, 2.4 mm of rain forecast.
Forecast snapshot from 11 Sep 2026, 08:30 UTC — refreshed nightly and updated live in your browser. Temperatures and gusts adjusted to the 765 m summit altitude via Open-Meteo. Summit conditions are always harsher than the valley — check the professional mountain forecasts before you go.
Stonesty Pike at a glance
Routes up Stonesty Pike
Hand-mapped, with GPX to download — full maps further down.
Classifications & hill data
The short answers
Is Stonesty Pike a Wainwright?
Stonesty Pike is not a Wainwright. It is on the Birkett list.
Where do you park for Stonesty Pike?
The nearest car park we hold is Hard Knott (verge), about 2.5 km from the summit in a straight line. 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 Stonesty Pike?
The shortest way up we hold is Stonesty Pike, Great Knott & Wrynose Fell — 13.6 km, 1033 m of ascent, about 4.4 hours. On our scale its hardest axis is steepness — Severe.
All axes: steepness: Severe · navigation: Hard · exposure: Hard · length: Moderate · terrain: Moderate.
Parking & buses for Stonesty Pike
Best parking to hike Stonesty 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 Stonesty Pike by bus
The 517 stops at Little Langdale, outside Three Shires Inn. From there it is 4.6 km and 352 m of ascent to the start of Stonesty Pike, Great Knott & Wrynose Fell — a walk in before the walk. We haven’t published last buses, Sunday or winter service yet, so check the timetable before you rely on getting back.
Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com (opens in new tab) or Traveline before relying on a last bus.
Hazards on Stonesty 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: Hard Knott (verge), about 2.5 km from the summit (straight line). Full parking, toilets and bus details are below.
Birketts near Stonesty 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 Stonesty 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.
On the hill: terrain and water on Stonesty Pike
Terrain & access
A near-path top (about 765 m): a mapped path comes within about 290 m of the summit, with a last stretch of open ground (about 17 m of ascent, up to ~15°). The summit is on CRoW open access land.
Computed from open data, not walked — pathless ground needs confident navigation, and mapped paths, barriers and access boundaries can be incomplete. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (via Overpass); Natural England CRoW Access Land; DoBIH; Copernicus GLO-30. See the terrain & access report for how this is worked out across all 144 fells.
Places to stay near this fell
From Wrynose Pass: 2 places in Grasmere
Other fells near Stonesty Pike
- 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
- Illgill Head
- Lingmell
- Lingmoor Fell (Brown How)
- Pike of Blisco
- Rossett Pike
- Rosthwaite Fell - Bessyboot
- Scafell
- Scafell Pike
- Seathwaite Fell (Wainwright summit)
- Slight Side
- Swirl How
- The Old Man of Coniston (Coniston Old Man)
- Wetherlam
- Whin Rigg (Wasdale)