Beinn Ghlas

About Beinn Ghlas

Beinn Ghlas belongs to the Ben Lawers range on the north shore of Loch Tay, in Breadalbane. Its name, grey-green mountain, describes the mica-schist that makes up most of the hill and spills as scree down the south-western side; outcrops of the rock along the way show large garnets.

The deep Coire Odhar, the dun-coloured corrie, lies to the north. Walkers heading on to Ben Lawers sometimes skirt the summit on the return to avoid a hundred metres of re-ascent.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Beinn Ghlas (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

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 56.536, -4.237. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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

obvious summit/Leica RX1250

Record revised

15-Dec-24

Drop measured from

NN 6302 4117 · 994.3 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.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

Beinn Ghlas is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Ben Lawers (1,214 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 994 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