Alport Castles Loop, High Peak

Loop Walk · Peak District

500

XP

about 3 h 10 min walking

Strenuous

12.17 km

Loop

04:00

517 m

365 m

214 m

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Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

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Steep walk

Some very steep ground — marked on the map.

Climb

427 m

Drop

439 m

Highest

477 m

Lowest

227 m

Which way round

Anticlockwise: Easy first 1.5 km, climbs 13% for 570 m midway, comes down 18% for 970 m near the end.

Clockwise: Easy first 1.6 km, climbs 18% for 970 m early on, comes down 13% for 570 m midway.

Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.4 km at 10%+, 1.4 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.8 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.

Main descent: km 4.1–7.7, from 476 m to 228 m.

How the 12.1 km splits

Flat

2.0 km

Climbing

2.8 km

Very steep climbing (15%+)

1.4 km

Descending

5.1 km

Steep descending (10–15%)

0.8 km