Walk · Cumbria

Loughrigg Terrace and Rydal Water from Ambleside

Ambleside

6.6MILES

3h 25mON FOOT

330mCLIMB

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

Off-road 88% 12% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 66%Lane & track 22%Road with traffic 12%

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

Rydal Road pay-and-display car park, Ambleside, behind the library

Parking

Paid council car park, roughly 130 spaces, full by 10am in summer and at half term; the larger Low Fold car park on Lake Road is the overflow

Directions to the start →

Six and a half miles and about three and a half hours, on made paths almost the whole way: a steady pull over the top of Loughrigg Fell, then the broad shelf of Loughrigg Terrace above Grasmere before dropping to Rydal Cave and the shore of Rydal Water. It starts in the middle of Ambleside, so the 555 and 599 buses from Windermere station serve it directly; the Rydal Road pay-and-display car park behind the library is the nearest but is full by mid-morning in any decent weather. Loughrigg is common grazing with Herdwicks on it all year, so leads on the open fell, but Rydal Water has shallow shingle beaches where a dog can swim, and the walled sections have gates rather than stiles throughout.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads across the open fell - Loughrigg is grazed by Herdwick sheep all year, and the Terrace is a busy shared path with runners and cyclists on the lower track.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

Water bowls

REGION · CUMBRIA

GRID · 54.4325, -2.9653

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Loughrigg Terrace and Rydal Water from Ambleside

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