Mount Keen

About Mount Keen

Mount Keen, or Monadh Caoin, has a distinction no other Munro can take: at 939 metres it is the most easterly of them all, standing on the Aberdeenshire-Angus border in the Cairngorms National Park. A trig point marks the summit, and on a clear day the Cairngorms are laid out to the north, Lochnagar especially.

Lines of approach come from Glen Mark to the south, Glen Tanar to the north, and eastwards towards Braid Cairn. Many people begin by mountain bike from Aboyne, riding up through the native Caledonian pine woodland of Glen Tanar.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Mount Keen (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 56.970, -2.974. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rock 1m S of trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit/Leica RX1250

Record revised

27-Jan-24

Drop measured from

NO372867 · 627 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

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).

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.

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