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N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
Please report via the contact page any logs you see below which describe or encourage acts of trespass. Please quote the hill number and hill name.
| Logged Descriptions (logged by 57 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From the CP visited all areas. | robertphillips | 16/12/2023 |
| A tour of the Simonside Hills from the free car park near Lordenshaw. The long walk took in Simonside, a revisit to Tosson Hill, Darden Rigg, Gunner's Box, then a long walk back along the St. Oswald's Way to the car park. This was followed by a quick trip up to Garleigh Hill - both the trig and old fort. Altogether it was a 32km round with 730m ascent, taking me 9 hours. Not a cloud in the sky! The ground was tinder dry, but the going easy. | silveracorn_alan | 29/05/2023 |
| Matt | 14/02/2023 | |
| peebs | 15/08/2022 | |
| Andy West | 09/08/2022 | |
| Rothbury, up track and grassy bridleway to ancient fort, down to road at small carpark, then along road through wind blown plantation and along path to southwest ridge, up and down this, back to road, then on over Simonside to Tosson Hill. Avoids all the deep bracken. | Flatfield | 13/07/2022 |
| Martin R | 22/05/2022 | |
| Busy free carpark. Visit ancient embankment via path first, seems higher but then go to gleaming trig on nearby hill passing through huge eroded boulders and it seems higher!! continue to Dove Crag, opposite. | Denise | 05/03/2022 |
| From car park to SW. First the hill fort then the summit with large cairn and trig pillar. Good views. | RichardM | 05/03/2022 |
| From Lordenshaws carpark | Andrew Simmons | 18/12/2021 |
| Grass path and then cut heather sections from the car park to the SW. The nearby fort and cup & ring marked rocks an added attraction. | summitter | 06/11/2021 |
| From large parking area to East as per John R. Also bagged trig. | NormanW | 11/09/2021 |
| jimbloomer | 09/09/2021 | |
| mae | 01/07/2021 | |
| AdyGray | 26/06/2021 | |
| Circular walk including 268m roman settlement from car park to the south | johnbarnard25 | 12/06/2021 |
| From SE. Parking on the B6342 at NZ06449869 (marked on OS 25k). Directly to the summit through thick grass, then thick heather. Returned S down backbone of hill and back to road along the marked path. Returned along paths through the heather which would have made a much easier ascent route. | JohnR | 26/10/2020 |
| From Simonside along RoWs. Short flog through heather to/from the summit. Then descended to Rothbury along RoW's. | KeithByTheC | 15/07/2020 |
| Circuit from car park to SW. Visited both summits prior to examining LIDAR data on return. | Galltywenallt | 23/06/2020 |
| dexly | 15/05/2020 | |
| Rothbury-Garleigh Hill-Simonside-Tosson Hill-Rothbury. Quick dash up through the heather to the summit | Gary Heath | 29/02/2020 |
| Adrian | 22/01/2020 | |
| Bagging the trig. | BigJ | 06/11/2019 |
| I'm sure I've bagged this big beast before. Not far from Car Park and over some heather. | Jhimmy | 29/10/2019 |
| Continued to explore the moor to the north. | Nick Caunt | 21/09/2019 |
| Solid car park (alt 204m) to east but gated across road leads into dense bracken during the season. Possibly better to try the track leading off the road to the south. Hard slog through bracken and virgin heather. 1.47km but takes about 40 minutes return. | moorsman | 31/07/2019 |
| flakeyw | 06/07/2019 | |
| From car park to SW along track, then direct route to Trig and HP. Also visited other possible HP. Done at same time as Simonside, Tosson Hill and Darden Rigg. | PeterD | 27/11/2018 |
| 9 mile out-and-back walk from car park east of Garleigh Moor, over pathless ground from road onto Garleigh Hill, then down to footpath west, along to Simonside Hills car park and followed well made paths all the way along the ridge to Simonside summit, descended steeply and followed boggy footpath along to Tosson Hill then back to car park missing the Simonside ridge taking the forest lane north instead. Perfect autumn/winter weather cold, clear and bright. | DanTrig | 06/11/2017 |
| andy elliott | 07/10/2017 | |
| From SW. | ger | 21/08/2017 |
| From layby to SE. Gated access | Moorponder | 12/07/2017 |
| carole engel | 27/03/2017 | |
| Dave Geere | 01/01/2017 | |
| Rowan | 02/08/2016 | |
| Laurel | 02/08/2016 | |
| Steve Q | 25/06/2016 | |
| With Jo, from Lordenshaw cp. Weather; generally cloudy, warm, good visibility. | amblerbob | 16/05/2016 |
| thelonious | 05/05/2016 | |
| From large car park to SW. Rock 5m SW of trig or grass/heathery knoll with rock slabs 60m from trig seem highest points. Then across to hill fort and cup & ring boulder for interest. | Aye Jimmy | 21/04/2016 |
| smamum | 02/11/2015 | |
| Free car park south of the river. Path past Whitton and Sharp's folly. Whittondean and then across towards Garleigh. Very pleasant. | callumorr | 23/10/2015 |
| Parked to the ESE then over moorland to bag summit and then the trig with Adrian Dust. | Dugswell2 | 30/09/2015 |
| Dusty | 30/09/2015 | |
| Lucky | 13/06/2015 | |
| maknipe | 13/06/2015 | |
| Short walk alone on a sunny evening from Lordenshaw car park. | Skip | 05/06/2015 |
| From Lordenshaws CP - great view over Rothbury. | Crib Goch | 28/12/2014 |
| asbown | 12/09/2014 | |
| Walked up to trig point while Sonja looked for 'cup and ring' marks on exposed rock slabs. | Skip | 04/06/2014 |