Summit Register

3,000 ft mountain · Gwynedd, Wales

Y Garn

946 m

3,104 ftDrop 234 mSH 630 595

Finder: 3 Furths in Gwynedd

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmY Garn946Glyder Fawr1,000.9Elidir Fawr924Tryfan917.5Moel Cynghorion674.2
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmY Garn946Glyder Fawr1,000.9Elidir Fawr924
Looking north, 167 km wide, heights ×44 (method).

Y Garn is a 3,000 ft mountain of 946 m in Gwynedd. Only three of the register's Wales hills are higher.

It counts towards four lists: Hewitts, Nuttalls, Furths and Marilyns. Of the register hills in Gwynedd, only Snowdon – Yr Wyddfa stands higher. The database describes the top as a cairn/shelter.

To scale

Summit946 mKey col712 msea level
Key col SH 6350 5849, 1.1 km south-east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

946 m4th highest of 56 in Wales

Drop

234 m579th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

2.0 km784th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Glyder Fawr2.0 km south-east
    1,000.9 m
  2. 2
    Elidir Fawr2.6 km north-west
    924 m
  3. 3
    Tryfan3.3 km east
    917.5 m
  4. 4
    Moel Cynghorion5.5 km south-west
    674.2 m
1234Glyder FawrElidir FawrTryfanMoel CynghorionN2 km

Lists

  • 10th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 7th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here
  • 10th highest of the 15 Furths profiled here
  • 170th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Glyder Fawr, 1,000.9 m, 2.0 km south-east
Region
30B: Snowdonia
OS map
115
Summit
Cairn/shelter
DoBIH no.
1972
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Y Garn

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). What prominence (drop) means, with real figures