| Name: | Cairnsmore of Fleet |
| Hill number: | 1699 |
| Height: | 711m / 2333ft |
| County/UA: | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Topographical area: | SS04 Merrick-fleet |
| SMC/RHB section: | 27B: Carrick and Galloway |
| Donald area: | Galloway Hills |
| Catchment: | Cree, Catchment Boundaries, Fleet (Gatehouse) |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Graham, Donald, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,G,D,DN,Y,P500) |
| Grid ref: | NX 50121 67048 |
| Summit feature: | ground by large cairn |
| Drop: | 522m |
| Col: | 189m NX535740  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 83 (1:25k) 319 |
| Observations: | rock by trig point 35m NE at NX 50161 67072 is lower |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 461 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| https://www.strava.com/activities/11542622215 | Sleepwa1ker | 31/05/2024 |
| SMC donalds walk. Start at Big Water of Fleet Viaduct. When exiting the forest followed an ATV track to cross a wooden bridge before heading up to Knee of Cairnsmore. Descent above the Lodge fairly awful going down steep long dry grassy slopes, otherwise nice walk. Was 13 miles per Garmin, not 19km as per the book description. | JulieB | 20/04/2024 |
| A walk up from the car park to the summit via the tourist track in search of snow bunting off which there were none. Overcast and cold with mist from 1800 feet, thick on summit. | 3 kinnears | 01/02/2024 |
| 25 years since 1st visit. Dry but misty all day. | lordtonult | 08/10/2023 |
| Straight up and down by the tourist route in search of Dotterel which were found (one juvenile on path). Thick mist from 500m but rain kept away thankfully as a strong wind was blowing. | 3 kinnears | 01/09/2023 |
| Circuit from Cairnsmore House. 1 of 3 | thekirkie pirate | 17/08/2023 |
| Straight up and down the excellent, well signposted path from the south west. Beautiful almost cloudless day. Views to the Mull of Galloway and the Isle of Man. | Owen B | 07/04/2023 |
| Another visit to this Donald group during my current round. A decent day with clear views over Wigtown Bay and the Solway. On to Meikle Mulltaggart | Colin Crawford | 01/09/2022 |
| Cairnsmore of Fleet from Palnure | Huwel | 27/08/2022 |
| Heather. No views. Hill cleared on descent. | garbo1103 | 27/06/2022 |
| Walked up the main path before heading north in search of Billy Marshall's Cave. Long walk over tough terrain. | jigglybones | 05/03/2022 |
| In the clouds all day. Started at car park below Cairnsmore House. Path up to Cairnsmore of Fleet was pretty good. Then, navigated across the grassy slopes to Meikle Multaggart and then followed the fence to Knee of Cainsmore and down on the grassy slopes, with one boulder field. Last 3 miles were on a good track. | tsharp | 14/01/2022 |
| With Sue. cold wind | HardenC | 25/10/2021 |
| Parked in walkers car park and up the usual path through the forestry. | PeteF | 11/09/2021 |
| From car parking area of Cairnsmore Estate, then tourist path. | willyross | 07/09/2021 |
| With Adrian, from parking area at Cairnsmore Estateup main path. Misty & cold, drizzle. Headed towards Knee of Cairnsmore. | alwaysinshorts | 04/09/2021 |
| 1 of 4: From Cairnsmore CP. With Karen. | ChrisR | 31/08/2021 |
| Fairly easy climb despite weak legs from yesterdays marathon. Good views. | Jhimmy | 30/08/2021 |
| Continued to Knee of Cairnsmore. | duchally | 18/07/2021 |
| Up tourist path and then onto Meikle Mulltagart. | MichaelF | 17/05/2021 |
| From Cairnsmore up the tourist path for a round of Knee of Cairnsmore, Cairnsmore of Fleet, Meikle Mulltaggart and Millfore Hill. | rhalstead | 02/05/2021 |
| From Cairnsmore up to the summit then onto the Knee of Cairnsmore | Wayne Mac | 07/04/2021 |
| From Cairnsmore Estate car park, straight up the path. Very icy with lovely snow on top. Sunny with little wind. Back via Knee of Cairnsmore. | Slightly Mad | 01/01/2021 |
| Parked in the usual spot near Palnure to the south west and used the summit path before branching of to visit the Knee of Cairnsmore, then returned to visit Cairnsmore's summit and onto Meikle Mulltaggart, extending the route to take in Millfore hill looked worse than it was over rough boggy ground. Eleven mile in six and a quarter hours. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 10/10/2020 |
| From Greddock CP | screeleep | 23/09/2020 |
| Up the tourist path from Cairnsmore with A&C. Good views then on to Meikle Mulltaggart and back via the Knee. | PeterD | 31/08/2020 |
| Round of Cairnsmore of Fleet from viaduct. Knee of Cairnsmore, Cairnsmore of Fleet, Meikle Mulltaggart, Milfore Hill (top and pt601), descent via Craigronald ridge and forest tracks. Midges on ascent until reaching the breeze on the ridge | RobertP | 15/08/2020 |
| Long walk up, steep steadt ascent. Great views between the clouds, cold at the top. Walked alone. | RO-7023 | 05/08/2020 |
| Made my first foray into Dumfries and Galloway this weekend. Took the caravan to Southerness with Stuart Cook also bringing his and Chris & Heather Brisbane in their family's Mazada Bongo. Today I went over to Newton Stewart, to bag the most southerly hill of the main four hill lists (Munros, Corbetts, Grahams and Donalds) Cairnsmore of Fleet (711m) a Donald and a Graham. Also included the nearby Donald Tops of Meikle Mullytaggart (612m) and Knee of Cairnsmore (656m), 06:04hrs all in. Seen some goats on the ridge, the Isle of Man and Alisa Craig. | chillyman8 | 01/08/2020 |
| Repeat to visit the two DTs. Out to Meikle Mulltaggart, then down via the Knee. With B and R. | jenx | 18/07/2020 |
| With Jenx and Bryher nearly 10 years in from first visit Collected the D tops this time! | nordicstar | 18/07/2020 |
| A tough terrain day that started and ended at the viaduct carpark and took in Clints of Dromore East, Mountain End and Craig Hill before heading up to the bigger boys of Knee of Cairnsmore and Cairnsmore of Fleet. Returned via Meikle Mulltaggart and Craigronaid to the forest track at Loch Grannoch Lodge. Best part of 6 hours in total. | summitter | 10/07/2020 |
| Revisit with Alfie. Came up from Dromore over Knee of Cairnsmore. | Dangerous Dave | 27/01/2020 |
| Climbed with Judy and on a day which turned out foul. From car park at NX 462632 just north of Graddoch Bridge. Operated on ham radio for SOTA on VHF. | G4OBK (Phil) | 03/01/2020 |
| Cairnsmore of Fleet, Meikle Mulltaggart, Knee of Cairnsmore and back on track past Knocktim. | PGCE | 17/11/2019 |
| ACW circuit of the Knee, Cairnsmore and Meikle Mulltaggart from the CP near Greddoch Bridge. Excellent paths and fairly easy goping on the rising traverse from the main hill path to the Knee. Visited the cairn and the higher rock summit by the pool, while being blown sideways by an easterly whipping over the escarpment edge. Descending the hill path with the sun setting over the Cree was delightful. | Nick Down1 | 15/11/2019 |
| With Iain Thow. | Capt Malbec | 12/10/2019 |
| Revisit called by after arriving back on belfast ferry. Cool wind with great views, nice gentle gradient path from small carpark off A75 | cjo | 16/09/2019 |
| From the CP at NX463632 - via the main path passing Cairnsmore Farm. | summitsup | 13/08/2019 |
| fa, solo, mist and light rain with a period of bad vis round summit, 13.8km, 3h 47m, from c.p. by gruddoch bridge, past house and farm, up through the forestry following the path all the way to the summit - which was a bit grim and back the same way | rum doodle | 31/05/2019 |
| Walked up from Cairnsmore Farm. | IanHHill | 15/05/2019 |
| 4th top of 10 on a traverse from the Deer Range car park to Gatehouse of Fleet, climbing Round Fell, Millfore hill, Meikle Mulltaggart and then upto the Trig and cairn. Very strong winds and rain. Continuing on the exposed ridge to the Knee of Cairnsmore, having a quick look at the Airmen memorial en-route but too cold to stop and study it. . | Dazingdale | 07/10/2018 |
| From other tops... down via the good path | N.Morters | 03/10/2018 |
| Good family walk from the cp to the SW. A memorial near the summit to an astonishing number of airmen who have crashed into the hill. | Herbert Anchovy | 25/08/2018 |
| With Brian R. from the C.P. Good footpath. Clearing murk. Excellent cake on the summit. | Play2End | 21/07/2018 |
| Parked by the Big Water of Fleet Viaduct at 558643 & up Knee of Cairnsmore - From Knee of Cairnsmore, faint path down to col & then up over easy terrain to the granite memorial, ancient summit cairn & trig point. Continued to Meikle Mulltaggart. (S) | gerrybowes | 05/06/2018 |
| Mizzle early on turning into a nice day. Climbed cairnsmore and then Mueller mulltaggart | Longwojo | 03/06/2018 |
| From Mulltaggart and on to the Knee with a small group of fellow baggers. Fine 22k ridge walk from Brocklock Bridge to Gatehouse rly stn. | jonglew | 24/03/2018 |
| Solo S1561 pillar glorious views. Essex woman from Dumfries. | vegibagger | 24/03/2018 |
| Trig pillar. Great views on way to gatehouse station | cjo | 24/03/2018 |