Scotland

Beinn Challuim · Ben Challum

MunroMarilynHuMPSimmMurdo

4 classifications here — Marilyn, HuMP, Simm and Murdo — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Beinn Challuim, 1025 m, Stirling
Beinn Challuim, 1025 m, Stirling. Photo by Mick Knapton at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
1024.9 m · 3,363 ft
Grid reference
NN 38688 32227
Coordinates
56.45457, -4.61918
County / area
Stirling
OS Landranger
50
OS Explorer
OL48W 377E 378W
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
NN378330 (575 m)

About Beinn Challuim

Beinn Challuim, anglicised as Ben Challum, sits east of Tyndrum in the Forest of Mamlorn, an old deer forest at the northern edge of the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. At 1,025 metres it is a Munro of the Breadalbane region, in the Glen Lyon to Glen Dochart and Loch Tay area.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Beinn Challuim (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.

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 56.455, -4.619. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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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
29-Mar-23
Drop measured from
NN378330 · 575 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

The Beinn Challuim group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Beinn Challuim as the independent hill at its head.

Listed summits in the Beinn Challuim prominence group
SummitHeightDrop
Beinn Challuim South Top 998 m 45 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

PeakHeightDistance
Beinn Challuim South Top 998.3 m 0.7 km
Cam Chreag 883.6 m 2.7 km
Stob nan Clach 956.5 m 2.9 km
Beinn Chaorach 818 m 2.9 km
Beinn nan Imirean 849 m 3.5 km
Creag Mhor 1046.8 m 3.9 km