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

Sunshine and showers. Strong to gale winds gradually easing. Freezing level above summits.

Cloudy at first with occasional rain, turning heavy at times, clearing around dawn. A day of bright and sunny spells and showers. Showers frequent early morning but otherwise light and well scattered, particularly from noon with many places staying dry for the afternoon. Cloud building through evening bringing a chance of rain reaching from the south towards midnight.

Visibility: Good becoming moderate or poor in rain, very poor within cloud with bases quite extensive early from 600m, lifting and breaking from mid-morning, and finally thickening and lowering during the evening

Daylight: dawn 05:40, sunrise 06:15, sunset 18:24, dusk 19:00

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Our Latest Blog Posts

 • Using our Mapping for Other Walks
Here at WalkLakes we have two obsessions: walking and mapping and here's an example of our mapping being used by other people to create great walks.

 • Winter - Time to check your gear
Time to wash, proof and otherwise prepare your existing winter gear; and new gear you might want to buy

 • Hills Database Updated
We've just imported the latest version of the Database of British and Irish hills. This release adds four more hill lists, plus we've now got the "drop" of each summit recorded.

 • Being Prepared
Poorly prepared walkers get themselves into all sort of trouble on Scafell Pike due to lack of planning and poor decision making.

 • Leave Only Pawprints
As summer gets into full swing, you are being reminded to take all litter home with you to protect the landscape you love.

 • Mountain Rescue Box ransacked
Amidst a surge in the number of call outs on and around Scafell Pike in May the Mountain Rescue Stretcher box at Mickledore was ransacked over the Bank Holiday weekend.

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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.