A significant proportion of the UK's 20 km2 (7.7 sq mi) of limestone pavement is to be found on Hutton Roof Crags and the neighbouring Farleton Knott.

[2] Plants including angular Solomon's seal (Polygonatum odoratum), limestone fern (Gymnocarpium robertianum), and dark red helleborine (Epipactis atrorubens) are to be found on the pavement.

The nationally scarce rigid buckler-fern (Dryopteris submontana) is abundant on Hutton Roof Crags.

Access is possible via the public footpath running across the north of the fell, but is probably easier through the woods to the south-west.

The extensive low limestone outcrops make the Hutton Roof Crags a popular site for bouldering.