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

This evening

Dry with clear spells and a widespread frost. Light westerly winds.

Tomorrow

Dry start but sleet or snow spreading east. Severe wind chill on the tops.

Dry start with a widespread frost. Thickening cloud with outbreaks of sleet or snow spreading east by late morning, but falling as rain below 200m. Rain, sleet or snow turning heavy for a few hours in the afternoon but will ease during the evening and turn to rain at all levels as milder air arrives from the southwest.

Visibility: Very good at most elevations at first with patchy cloud above 600m. Becoming very poor by early afternoon with extensive cloud cover above 200 or 300m. Low cloud and snow will make navigation very difficult on high slopes. White out conditions over snow cover.

Daylight: dawn 07:30, sunrise 08:10, sunset 16:39, dusk 17:19

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Our Latest Blog Posts

 • An Appeal from Cumbria's Mountain Rescue teams
We are publishing this appeal from Cumbria's Mountain Rescue teams in full and we urge you to read it before venturing out into the fells.

 • Lake District to feature on New Stamp
The Lake District is to feature as part of the Royal Mail's first set of 2021 special stamps.

 • 2020: a Mixed Year for Mountain Rescue
Annual figures tell a mixed story across Mountain Rescue in England and Wales.

 • New Visitors to Cumbria remain a Problem
The LDSAMRA have issued a press release talking about the problems that the rise in inexperienced walkers is causing them.

 • The Fell Top Assessors are Back
The Fell Top Assessors are back for another season bringing you daily reports on conditions in the high fells.

 • Walking Near Cattle
There's been a number of incidents recently across the UK with walkers being badly injured or killed by cattle. We've got some thoughts on how to avoid the next walker being you.

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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.