Scar Crags
4 classifications here — Simm, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 672 m · 2,205 ft
- Prominence
- 54 m
- Grid reference
- NY 20850 20662
- Coordinates
- 54.57497, -3.22595
- County / area
- Cumberland
- Region
- Lake District C&W
- OS Landranger
- 89 90
- OS Explorer
- OL4S
- Summit feature
- cairn
- Key col
- NY204204 (618 m)
About Scar Crags
Scar Crags belongs to the Coledale group in the north-western Lake District, about seven kilometres south-west of Keswick, reaching 672 metres. It appears on the Wainwright, Hewitt, Nuttall, Birkett, Synge and Fellranger lists.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Scar Crags (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
Access rights here
Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.
Permission needed Wild camping: Needs the landowner's permission — the Dartmoor commons are the only exception in England.
General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England ·check another location.
Daylight at this summit today
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Computed astronomically for 54.575, -3.226. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (672 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
0.75m higher than ground around Wainwright cairn 120m SW at NY 20749 20598.
The recorded summit point is cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Abney level
- Record revised
- 23-Oct-23
- Drop measured from
- NY204204 · 618 m
Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.
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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotgate Tea Room and Shop | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 3.9 km · NE |
| The Flight Park | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 4.4 km · NE |
| Sykefarm Tearoom and Gifts Ltd (Braithwaite) | Takeaway/sandwich shop | 5 out of 5 | 4.4 km · NE |
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
Scar Crags is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Grasmoor (852 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 618 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Outerside | 568 m | 0.8 km |
| Ard Crags | 581 m | 0.9 km |
| Causey Pike | 637 m | 1 km |
| Sail | 773 m | 1.1 km |
| Crag Hill | 839.2 m | 1.6 km |
| Hobcarton Crag | 737.6 m | 2 km |