Favourite Lake District walks with routes and GPX files

The Lake District National Park is England’s largest and covers 2362 square km or 912  square miles.

If hiking and mountain walks are your thing like ours there is no better place in England to set as your base and head out with your boots on.

England’s top 10 highest mountains are all in the Lake District  and Alfred Wainwright described 214 fells in his pictorial guides.

1. Scafell Pike at 978 metres (3210 feet)
2. Scafell at 964 metres (3162 feet)
3. Helvellyn at 950 metres (3114 feet)
4. Skiddaw at 931 metres(3053 feet)
5. Great End at 910 metres (2986 feet)
6. Bowfell at 902 metres (2940 feet)
7. Great Gable at 899 metres (2960 feet)
8. Pillar at 892 metres (2926 feet)
9. Nethermost Pike at 891 metres (2923 feet)
10. Catstycam (2917 feet)

With miles and miles of paths around dozens of lakes, tarns and waters and around 28,500 hectares of woodland there are walks for everyone, from families to the most experienced hikers. We would like to introduce you to some of our favourites below, we hope to constantly update this list over time.