Meall Garbh

About Meall Garbh

Meall Garbh forms the north-eastern end of the Ben Lawers range together with Meall Greigh, in the hills between Glen Lyon and Loch Tay. Its craggy southern face looks down on Lochan nan Cat.

The summit is hidden from the A827 along Loch Tay, so the hill gives little away from the road. Walkers often take it with Meall Greigh, and it can also be worked into a longer traverse of the Lawers ridge taking in four further Munros and ending at the National Trust for Scotland visitor centre.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Meall Garbh (Lawers Group) (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 56.566, -4.208. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica RX1250

Record revised

11-Oct-16

Drop measured from

NN635426 · 925 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

One place 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 Meall Garbh group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Meall Garbh 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