Beinn a' Chroin East Top
2 classifications here — Simm and Murdo — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 940.1 m · 3,084 ft
- Prominence
- 63.1 m
- Grid reference
- NN 39400 18588
- Coordinates
- 56.33241, -4.59929
- County / area
- Stirling
- Region
- Loch Lomond to Strathyre
- OS Landranger
- 50 56
- OS Explorer
- OL39N 364N
- Summit feature
- cairn
- Key col
- NN 3919 1861 (877 m)
About Beinn a' Chroin East Top
Beinn a' Chroin East Top is a 940.1-metre subsidiary summit of Beinn a' Chroin, a 941-metre Munro in Breadalbane in the Scottish Highlands, rising six kilometres south of Crianlarich. The Top lies in the Stirling council area within Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park and is classified as a Munro Top, a Simm and a Murdo.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Beinn a' Chroin (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
Access rights here
Yes Right to roam: Statutory right of responsible access to most land and inland water.
Yes Wild camping: Wild camping is broadly lawful under the 2003 Act.
In defined Camping Management Zones (roughly 1 March – 30 September) camping requires a permit or use of a designated site, despite the general Scottish access right. Zones cover parts of east Loch Lomond, Trossachs lochshores and other honeypot areas.
General position for Scotland — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Scotland ·check another location.
Daylight at this summit today
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Computed astronomically for 56.332, -4.599. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (940 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
The recorded summit point is cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Leica RX1250
- Record revised
- 21-Dec-14
- Drop measured from
- NN 3919 1861 · 877 m
Classification history: Munro relocated to hill 2925. See Database Notes..
Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.
Reaching Beinn a' Chroin East Top by train
One National Rail station sits within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.
| Station | From summit | Summit lies |
|---|---|---|
| Crianlarich | 6.6 km | S of the station |
Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).
Which hill this one belongs to
Beinn a' Chroin East Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to An Caisteal (996 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 877 m.
Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.
Nearest listed peaks
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Beinn a' Chroin | 941.4 m | 0.6 km |
| An Caisteal | 995.9 m | 1.7 km |
| Beinn Tulaichean | 945.8 m | 2.5 km |
| Beinn Chabhair | 932.2 m | 2.7 km |
| Cruach Ardrain | 1045.9 m | 3 km |
| Stob a' Choin | 867.2 m | 3.5 km |