⛰️ Tarn Crag (Easedale)

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

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549 mWainwright — Central Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+6 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Tarn Crag at 583m (1,913ft) above Easedale is a craggy little summit above the head of the Sour Milk Gill path from Grasmere. Wainwright described it as giving fine views south over Grasmere and Windermere, and across to the Fairfield group to the east. The ascent from Grasmere via Easedale Tarn is excellent — the tarn itself is one of the finest in the Central Fells. Combined naturally with Sergeant Man and High Raise for a full day's circuit from Grasmere via Easedale.

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.

1.5 km WCodale Head732 m · Central
1.7 km SSECastle How (Raw Pike)498 m · Central
2.3 km WNWLow White Stones731 m · Central
2.6 km SSESwinescar Pike411 m · Central
2.7 km SELang How414 m · Central
2.8 km NWLining Crag542 m · Central

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Tarn Crag (Easedale) (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Stickle Ghyll / New Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 3.1 km from summit (straight line)
Direct start up Stickle Ghyll for the Langdale Pikes.
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Old Dungeon Ghyll (NT, paid) — 3.2 km from summit (straight line)
Head of Great Langdale — Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco, the Langdale Pikes.
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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 516 “Langdale Rambler”
Ambleside – Skelwith Bridge – Elterwater – New Dungeon Ghyll – Old Dungeon Ghyll
Catch it from: Ambleside · Windermere (change at Ambleside)
The Langdale bus — Pikes, Bowfell, Crinkle Crags, Pike o' Blisco all walkable from the Dungeon Ghyll stops. Seasonal frequency varies; check before relying on the last bus back.

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

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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