Allen Crags

Allen Crags

Highlight • Natural Monument

Allen Crags

Hiking

4.9

(39)

Running

5.0

(3)

Allen Crags is a fine fell right in the thick of the Lake District’s most mountainous region. From Esk Hause, the high, windswept crossroads between Esk Pike and the Scafells, it’s just a short walk to the summit. However, with the highest mountains in England to the west and legendary Bowfell to the southeast, Allen Crags has to settle for a place further down in the pecking order.

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Lake District National Park

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Location: Borrowdale, Allerdale, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom

Tips

June 11, 2021

Hiking

Allen Crags is a 2,575-foot (785 m) mountain in the Lake District National Park. It's also a Wainwright fell and boasts excellent views to Great Gable over Sprinkling Tarn, but also to nearby Great End and then across to the Langdale Pikes. I visited on a misty/moody Friday and it was very atmospheric. Allen Crags is quite commonly hiked together with Glaramara as they are linked by a long ridge which ultimately ends in Bessyboot to the north east.

51m

August 27, 2023

Running

Allen Crags stands at 785 m. It's part of the Scafell group, with a big rocky cairn on the summit.

David Howells

June 5, 2026

Hiking

Allen Crags is the first of the summits on that great ridge that takes you up and over Glaramara all the way over to Bessyboot on the other side. This is a complex ridge with a host of other peaks, but Allen Crags is the easily accessible first one. It has a decent cairned summit and superb vistas across to Geat End, Great Gable and down over Esk Hause and Sprinkling Tarn.