⛰️ Stybarrow Dodd

844 m · Wainwright — Eastern Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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844 mWainwright — Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+9 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Stybarrow Dodd at 843m (2,766ft) is the middlemost of the Helvellyn Dodds, a broad plateau summit above Sticks Pass giving good views in all directions but most notably east across Ullswater to the distant Pennines. Wainwright noted it as part of the excellent northern ridge walk that links Helvellyn to Clough Head and provides some of the finest sustained high-level walking in the Eastern Fells. The summit is easily reached from the Sticks Pass path. Combined naturally with Watson's Dodd and Great Dodd for the full northern Dodds traverse, one of the quieter ridge walks in this part of the Lake District.

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

🎯 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.

1.0 km EGreen Side (White Stones - Green Side)794 m · Eastern
1.6 km NNWLittle Dodd (St John's Common)785 m · Eastern
2.0 km SWBrown Crag610 m · Eastern
2.2 km NNERanderside729 m · Eastern
2.3 km WNWCastle Rock339 m · Eastern
2.3 km ENEBirkett Fell725 m · Eastern
2.5 km NNWCalfhow Pike660 m · Eastern
2.9 km WGreat How (Thirlmere)333 m · Eastern
3.0 km WNWWren Crag311 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Stybarrow Dodd (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Legburthwaite (United Utilities, small) — 2.8 km from summit (straight line)
St John's in the Vale — Sticks Pass side, High Rigg, Raven Crag.
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Swirls, Thirlmere (paid) — 2.9 km from summit (straight line)
The standard west-side route up Helvellyn via Browncove Crags.
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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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