Gummer's How

The southern Lakes' quick win. From the Forestry Commission parking lot, cross the road, go through the gate signed for Gummers How, and a round trip of about 1.5 miles starts as a woodland walk across a brook, then climbs a fairly strenuous slope that the Fix the Fells path team has formed into steps to the 321-meter top. The view is the point: Windermere one way and Morecambe Bay and the sea the other, with Blackpool Tower visible on a clear day. It suits a first-ever summit, a walk with older children, or a leg-stretch on the drive into the Lakes from the south.