Beinn Sgritheall

About Beinn Sgritheall

Beinn Sgritheall, the scree mountain, is the highest ground on the Glenelg peninsula in the Northwest Highlands. It is also anglicised as Ben Sgriol and appears as Beinn an Sgrithill.

Approaches come either from Arnisdale on Loch Hourn or from Gleann Beag to the north, the latter glen known for its brochs. Sir Hugh Munro, a founder member of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, called the view from the summit perhaps the finest he had seen in Scotland.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Beinn Sgritheall (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 57.154, -5.580. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn by stone shelter. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised

10-Mar-07

Drop measured from

NG883120 · 474 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.

The Beinn Sgritheall group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Beinn Sgritheall 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