Walk · Cumbria

Latrigg from Keswick

Keswick

5MILES

2h 26mON FOOT

260mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 56%Lane & track 34%Road with traffic 10%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

Top of Spooney Green Lane, Keswick, over the A66 footbridge

Parking

Use the paid town car parks and walk out; the Gale Road car park at Underscar is free but holds about 12 cars and the approach is a single-track lane

Directions to the start →

Five miles and 260 metres, about two and a half hours: the graded zigzag up Latrigg's south side for the classic look down on Keswick and the whole length of Derwent Water, returning by Gale Road and the old railway path. It starts in Keswick at the top of Spooney Green Lane, with a footbridge over the bypass - the small Gale Road car park at Underscar knocks 200 metres of climb off but holds only a dozen cars and the lane to it is single-track. The zigzag is a broad, well-drained grass and gravel path with no stiles, which makes it one of the easier fell tops for an older dog, but the summit plateau is grazed by sheep and the north edge drops away steeply into the Glenderaterra valley.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads above the last gate; the summit plateau is grazed and the north side falls away sharply. Skiddaw's slopes above are ground-nesting bird ground from April to July.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · CUMBRIA

GRID · 54.6032, -3.1372

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