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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.

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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

• GDPR is Approaching Fast

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation comes into force in a month and we've been working hard to prepare for it

• Help restore the Keswick to Threlkeld Path

The path from Keswick to Threlkeld along the old railway line was badly damaged by Storm Desmond. You can help restore it.

• Walking the High Fells

There is still snow on the high fells like Helvellyn and Scafell Pike with more forecast. These are not conditions for inexperienced walkers.

• Retrospective Geotagging

If your camera doesn't have a built in GPS you can geotag your photos afterwards if you've got a GPS track handy.

• New Tiles on our GPS Mapping Application

We've added a new source of aerial photography tiles to our GPX mapping application.

• Thirlmere Zip Wire Application Withdrawn

The proposal to string eight zip wires over Thirlmere has been withdrawn!

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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.