Beinn Mheadhoin

About Beinn Mheadhoin

Beinn Mheadhoin, 'middle mountain', sits at the very centre of the Cairngorms and is among the most remote hills in the range, ringed by deep glens and mountain lochs including Loch A'an, Loch Etchachan and the Dubh Lochan. By some counts it is the twelfth-highest mountain in Great Britain.

Its top is broad and flat, and notable for the tors standing on it — large boulders left behind as the ice sheets withdrew at the close of the last glaciation. The true high point is the top of one of the biggest of these, and reaching it involves a scramble.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Beinn Mheadhoin (Cairngorms) (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 57.096, -3.611. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rock tor. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit/Leica RX1250

Record revised

27-Jul-15

Drop measured from

NJ007006 · 929 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

2 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.

The Beinn Mheadhoin group

2 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Beinn Mheadhoin as the independent hill at its head.

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