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450 Grisedale700 Pike Noble Knott Trail information 250 Grisedale PikeGrade:750 strenuous ck Be ale Masmill Beck250 Trail • • • 0m 500m 5.6km (3.5 miles) Allow 4 hours led Co Grade: moderate Two Gills Trail • • • Start at the visitor centre Grade: moderate 2km (1.25 miles) Allow 1 hour 2.8km (1.75 miles) Allow 1½ hours Access to can be gained from various Start at Noble Knott car park points throughout the forest. Please ask in the visitor Start at the visitor centre The quiet picnic site and car park at Noble Knott centre for advice on planning the best route. The spectacular views along this trail make it is the perfect place to begin this gentle circular very popular and it largely follows the forest road route. As it meanders through the ancient oaks network so it’s not difficult to negotiate. It crosses Lord’s Seat and Barf at Noble Knott, it eventually finds the forest Grade: strenuous both Black Gill and Comb Gill as they flow down the road and returns to the car park taking in some 8km (5 miles) Allow 4 hours mountain slopes to below. fabulous views of Bassenthwaite Lake. Follow junction markers Comb Beck Trail • • • Start at the visitor centre Words in the Woods Trail • • • Grade: moderate This rewarding route crosses the forest boundary Grade: moderate 2.8km (1.75 miles) Allow 1½ hours onto open , and gives some breathtaking views of 2.5km (1.5 miles) Allow 1½ hour Bassenthwaite Lake and the surrounding fells. From Start at the visitor centre Start at Noble Knott car park the visitor centre, access via junctions 2, 3, 5 and 23 Staying mainly off forest roads, this trail winds Follow this circular trail through mature woodland leading to the summit of Lord’s Seat. Return to the and into newly planted native woodland areas. through glades and beside streams and landscape centre via Barf and junctions 21, 8, 9, 10 or 11. features. As the trail follows Comb Gill, keep a Waymarked posts are inset with thoughtful, poetic look out for the ancient sheepfold and disused and sometimes humorous quotes about trees. dam, which once provided a source of power Revelin Moss Trail • • • Grade: easy Orienteering and children’s trails maps for the mines deep in the mountain below. 1.6km (1 mile) Allow 1 hour are available from the visitor centre. Seat How Summit Trail • • • Start at Revelin Moss car park Grade: strenuous The mighty Grisedale Pike towers above 5.75km (3.5 miles) Allow 3 hours Revelin Moss and gives a dramatic backdrop to some of the easiest walking in the forest. Start at the visitor centre This circular walk shows you why Whinlatter is ’s only true mountain forest. It takes in spectacular views Noble Knott Heavy Sides Trail • • • Grade: moderate of both and Bassenthwaite Lake, as 2.5km (1.5 miles) Allow 1½ hours well as the and mountain ranges, With unrivalled views which are some of the highest in England. Climbing Start at Noble Knott car park to 500m through forest and heather moorland, This trail is one of contrasts. The start takes you through across the Lakes, we’ve this trail is one of the treasures of Whinlatter. some of the mighty oak trees typical of the lower slopes of the forest adjacent to Masmill Beck. The trail then got miles of surfaced climbs through coniferous woodland traversing the Finding your way forest boundary along Heavy Sides, before returning to trails and tracks for you Follow the coloured trail markers on timber the car park via an area of mature mixed woodland. posts and look out for any warning markers. Two Gills Trail to explore.

Junction post number 29