Carn Gorm

About Carn Gorm

Carn Gorm belongs to a set of four Munros on the northern side of Glen Lyon in Perthshire, a group known as the Carn Mairg hills or the Glen Lyon Horseshoe. At 1,029.5 metres it stands in the Breadalbane country of the southern Highlands, and its position on the round means it is rarely climbed on its own.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Càrn Gorm (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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 56.623, -4.226. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is outcrop a few metres E of 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

05-Feb-23

Drop measured from

NN 6410 5136 · 841.1 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 Carn Gorm group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Carn Gorm 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