Red Pike (Wasdale)

About Red Pike (Wasdale)

Red Pike rises directly north of Wast Water and reaches 826 m. It is commonly taken in on a circuit of the Mosedale Horseshoe, a round that also crosses Pillar.

There is a second Red Pike only about five kilometres away above Buttermere, which is a ready source of confusion; Alfred Wainwright noted the convention of distinguishing this one as Wasdale Red Pike.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Red Pike (Wasdale) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England ·check another location.

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Computed astronomically for 54.484, -3.290. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

Red Pike (Wasdale) is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Pillar (892 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 762 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks