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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.

You can find out what's on in the Lake District by looking at our calendar and you can follow us on Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Facebook, or via RSS.

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.

Our Latest Blog Posts

• Picnic in the Park

To celebrate World Heritage Site status the Lake District is asking everyone to get outside and join in a 'Picnic in the Park'

• Lake District becomes a World Heritage Site

UNESCO announced today that the Lake District is to become a World Heritage Site

• John Muir Trust to take care of Helvellyn

The John Muir Trust are taking on a three-year management lease for Helvellyn and surrounding landscape

• Improved Met Office Mountain Forecast

This week the Met Office has made major changes to its mountain weather forecasts

• More Improvements to our Mapping App

We've made a couple of improvements to our GPS mapping application recently which will be of interest to you have registered and log in before using it.

• Life of a Mountain: Blencathra

Keswick Museum have an exhibition for the rest of this year about "The People's Mountain"

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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.