Ben Lui · Beinn Laoigh
5 classifications here — Trail 100, 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.
- Height
- 1131.4 m · 3,712 ft
- Prominence
- 876 m
- Grid reference
- NN 26639 26288
- Coordinates
- 56.39700, -4.81051
- County / area
- Stirling
- Region
- Inveraray to Crianlarich
- OS Landranger
- 50
- OS Explorer
- OL39N 364N 377E
- Summit feature
- cairn
- Key col
- NN320308 (255 m)
About Ben Lui
Ben Lui, Beinn Laoigh in Gaelic, stands in north-east Argyll in the southern Highlands and is the highest of a chain that includes three further Munros. Five well-defined ridges radiate from the summit, with four corries between them — among them Coirre Gaothaich on the north-east side.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Ben Lui (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 56.397, -4.811. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (1131 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
cairn 150m NW at NN 26549 26406 (hill 66) is lower.
The recorded summit point is cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Abney level/Leica RX1250
- Record revised
- 11-Feb-21
- Drop measured from
- NN320308 · 255 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 Ben Lui group
One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Ben Lui as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Beinn a' Chleibh | 916 m | 140 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' Chleibh | 916.3 m | 1.7 km |
| Ben Oss | 1029.8 m | 2.3 km |
| Beinn Chuirn | 880 m | 3.2 km |
| Meall nan Gabhar | 744 m | 3.8 km |
| Beinn Dubhchraig | 978.6 m | 4.2 km |
| Beinn na Sroine | 635.8 m | 4.2 km |