Garburn Pass and Yoke from Troutbeck

A whitewashed hillside inn above Troutbeck with the Garburn road behind it, under owners who describe themselves as incredibly pet friendly and mean it. Dogs are welcome throughout, up to two can stay in a bedroom, and there is a secure dog field three minutes away that you can book by the hour so they can run without sheep.

The seventeenth-century coaching inn at Town Head on the A592, high on the east side of the Troutbeck valley with the Kirkstone road climbing past the door. Its own site describes the place as "a cosy, dog-friendly haven" with "a warm Lakeland welcome for visitors both two-legged and four-legged", dog-friendly bedrooms, a dog menu and a wash station. It is the natural finish for Wansfell Pike or the Garburn Pass, and the walk down to Troutbeck Bridge is all lane. No dog charge is published, so ring before booking a room.

The long quiet valley walk behind Troutbeck, up the bridleway along Hagg Gill under the Yoke ridge, round the head of the dale and back down the west side of the Tongue by the Trout Beck. The Tongue itself is the whaleback hill of 364m in the middle of the valley and can be added from the north end. Troutbeck Park is a working sheep farm and the whole route crosses grazed in-bye and fell, with lambs on the valley floor from March. The bridleway is wet underfoot for most of its length even in a dry spell.