WalkLakes

Lake District Walks

Our aim at WalkLakes is to help you make the most of walking in the Lake District. We do that by searching out the best walks we can find from gentle to challenging and also by putting you in touch with other people who have walked in the Lake District via our forum.

If you want you can keep track of your walks using our web site and log how many hills you've climbed and of what type, be they Wainwrights, Birketts, Hewitts, Nuttalls, or Marilyns. You can also explore all the hills in the Lake District using our interactive map or throughout Great Britain using our hill finder.

We hope we can help you get more out of walking in the Lake District but do let us know if there's anything more we could do to help.

Felltop Forecast

Today

Dry with sunny periods.

Early cloud will clear during the day with long sunny periods developing.

Visibility: Very good visibility throughout the day and only the odd patch of low cloud around 800m in the early morning.

Daylight: dawn 04:55, sunrise 05:38, sunset 20:58, dusk 21:40

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Our Latest Blog Posts

• The Old Keswick Railway Line and Latrigg

We've recently resurveyed this walk and it's now pretty back to its original route, although now with added tunnel!

• Raven Crag and Castle Crag revisited

We've re-surveyed our walk to Raven Crag, Castle Crag, and The Benn and it's now been reborn as a walk to Raven Crag and Castle Crag and still offers two super viewpoints.

• Making it Easier to Get to our Walks

All our walks include a scrollable and zoomable map showing the location of the walk, and our printable PDF versions also include a road map of the area with the start of the walk highlighted but we've had requests from users to make it easier for them to get to the start point.

• Look out for Ticks

We're now well into the tick season and last month scientists and Lyme disease charities said that milder recent winters had extended the UK's tick "season" to the point where they were becoming a year-round threat so it seems like a good time to remind you of the hazard of ticks when out walking.

• Busy six days for the Wasdale MRT

Last week Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team experienced a very busy few days for its volunteers with at least one rescue every day with two 999 mountain rescue callouts on two of the days.

• National Trust, Fords, Paths, and Toilets

We've recently put online a new release of our map tiles which are widely used on this site. This release includes a number of new features.

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As corporate members of Friends of the Lake District we're helping to protect and enhance the Lake District.

Why not join them too?

WalkLakes recognises that hill walking, or walking in the mountains, is an activity with a danger of personal injury or death.
Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions.