Highest Lakeland road pass, the Struggle.
At 454m (1,489ft), Kirkstone is the highest road pass in the Lakes open to ordinary traffic. The A592 climbs to it from Ullswater and Patterdale on one side; the pull up from Ambleside is so steep it’s long been known as The Struggle. At the top stands the Kirkstone Pass Inn, the third-highest pub in England after the Tan Hill and the Cat and Fiddle — a welcome sight in poor weather, which the pass gets plenty of.
