Meall Garbh

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 56.818, -4.669. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is outcrop c.15m WNW 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

Record revised

28-Oct-01

Drop measured from

NN372735 · 923 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 Meall Garbh 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.

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).

Which hill this one belongs to

Meall Garbh is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Chno Dearg (1,046 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 923 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