Walk · Cumbria

Garburn Pass and Yoke from Troutbeck

Troutbeck · LA23 1PW

9MILES

5h 30mON FOOT

700mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

Off-road 92% 8% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 34%Lane & track 58%Road with traffic 8%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, 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

Town Head, Troutbeck, at the foot of the Garburn road LA23 1PW

Parking

No car park at Town End. Limited verge parking on the village lane, which must be kept clear for farm traffic, or the free layby at Church Bridge on the Kirkstone road ten minutes below. Both are gone

Directions to the start →

The old packhorse road over Garburn from Troutbeck to Kentmere, taken as far as the pass and then north up the broad ridge to Yoke at 706m, the first top of the Kentmere horseshoe. The Garburn road is a rebuilt stone track, hard going underfoot but never in doubt, and the ridge above it is grassy and wide. The return drops west off Yoke to the Hagg Gill bridleway and back down the valley past Troutbeck Park. Sheep are on every yard of this from the first gate, and the Garburn track is also used by mountain bikes at speed.

THE SMALL PRINTThe fell is access land under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act. Government guidance for open access land is that "dogs must be kept under effective control at all times and on a short lead of no more than 2 metres at all times near livestock", with the short-lead rule near livestock applying between 1 March and 31 July on non-coastal access land. The Garburn road and the Hagg Gill bridleway cross in-bye land belonging to working farms, where a lead is required at all times rather than seasonally. Landowners may exclude dogs from small lambing fields; obey the notices at the gates.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · CUMBRIA

GRID · 54.4143, -2.9017

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.GOV.UK/GUIDANCE/OPEN-ACCESS-LAND-MANAGEMENT-RIGHTS-AND-RESPONSIBILITIES

Garburn Pass and Yoke from Troutbeck

House rules, decoded

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