Ard Crags is a fell in the Lake District in Cumbria, England, it is situated in the Newlands Valley just off the minor road between Keswick and Buttermere.

However, viewed from certain points in the Rigg Beck [1] or Newlands valley area it presents a clearly defined and pyramidal shape which catches the eye.

The Ard Crags ridge is an example of the Buttermere Formation, an olistostrome of disrupted, sheared and folded mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

There are two possible starting points, one is at Rigg Beck in Newlands, near the site of the eccentrically painted “purple house” which was destroyed by fire in June 2008.

The alternative starting point is the car park at Newlands Hause which stands at an altitude of 333 metres (1,093 ft), the summit of Knott Rigg is crossed first before continuing onto Ard Crags.