Wales · Eryri National Park

Bryn Banog

Height
520 m · 1,706 ft
Grid reference
SH 57613 45727
Coordinates
52.98989, -4.12276
County / area
Gwynedd
Region
Snowdonia
OS Landranger
115
OS Explorer
OL17W OL18W
Summit feature
outcrop
Key col
SH574460 (457 m)

Access rights here

Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.

Permission needed Wild camping: Permission needed everywhere.

General position for Wales — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Wales ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 52.990, -4.123. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (520 m)…

Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

this is the N top; the cairned S top 110m S at SH57589 45619 may be as high.

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

Record revised
10-Dec-12
Drop measured from
SH574460 · 457 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.

Reaching Bryn Banog by train

2 National Rail stations sit within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.

StationFrom summitSummit lies
Porthmadog6.6 kmN of the station
Penrhyndeudraeth7.8 kmNW of the station

Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).

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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Bryn Banog
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Royal Goat HotelHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house5 out of 52.6 km · NE
Royal Goat Hotel RestaurantRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 52.6 km · NE
Glaslyn Ltd (Pizzeria)Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 52.7 km · NE

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

Bryn Banog is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Moel Hebog (784 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 457 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
Moel Hebog783.7 m1.6 km
Moel-ddu552.3 m1.6 km
Moel yr Ogof655 m2.9 km
Moel Lefn638 m3.6 km
Yr Aran747.2 m6.4 km
Trum y Ddysgl709.7 m6.7 km