Beinn an Lochain is a mountain in the

Arrochar Alps The Arrochar Alps are a group of mountains located around the head of Loch Long, Loch Fyne, and Loch Goil, near the villages of Arrochar and Lochgoilhead, on the Cowal Peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The mountains are especially popular ...

, southern

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, on the western edge of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. Although included in Sir Hugh Munro's original list of Scottish mountains over 3000 feet,Scottish Mountaineering Club, ed. William Douglas, 1895, ''Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal'', Edinburgh, Scotland, p. 239 subsequent surveys showed it to be significantly shorter than the 914.4 m cut-off limit required to count as a

Munro A Munro () is defined as a mountain in Scotland with a height over , and which is on the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) official list of Munros; there is no explicit topographical prominence requirement. The best known Munro is Ben Nev ...

. Nonetheless, it remains a popular mountain, and is often quoted as an example of an interesting mountain below 3000 feet to show that there is more to mountaineering in Scotland than just Munro-bagging. Beinn an Lochain is usually climbed from the

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at Butterbridge, on the A83 road, at the head of

Glen Kinglas The Arrochar Alps are a group of mountains located around the head of Loch Long, Loch Fyne, and Loch Goil, near the villages of Arrochar and Lochgoilhead, on the Cowal Peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The mountains are especially popula ...

. From there, the summit is reached after a 2.5 km walk along the mountain's north-east ridge, climbing over 700 m.

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Marilyns of Scotland Corbetts Mountains and hills of the Southern Highlands Mountains and hills of Argyll and Bute Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Mid Argyll and Cowal {{Argyll-geo-stub