{"id":374,"date":"2011-07-23T12:38:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T12:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/?page_id=374"},"modified":"2023-03-14T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T09:45:05","slug":"the-shelter-stone-ben-crom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/information\/interesting-places-in-the-mournes\/the-shelter-stone-ben-crom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shelter Stone, Ben Crom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Shelter Stone<\/strong>\u00a0located at\u00a0J325274 is one of the best known wild camping spots in the Mournes. It lies on a steep hill facing the head of Ben Crom reservoir and is accessible by following a track from Hares Gap or by walking up from the Silent Valley Reservoir complex. It is a set of stone slabs jutting out from the earth which can be clambered under for shelter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_383\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Shelter-Stone-Actual-Map.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-383\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-383\" title=\"Shelter Stone Map Location\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Shelter-Stone-Actual-Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Shelter-Stone-Actual-Map.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Shelter-Stone-Actual-Map-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelter Stone Map Location (Red Flag)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_377\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7839.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-377\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-377 \" title=\"Ben Crom Reservoir\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7839-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7839-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7839.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Crom Reservoir from part way up to the Shelter Stone<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_378\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7841.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-378\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-378\" title=\"The Shelter Stone from Below\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7841-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7841-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7841.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Shelter Stone from Below<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_379\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7842.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-379\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-379\" title=\"The Shelter Stone from Below\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7842-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7842-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7842.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Shelter Stone from Below<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_380\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7845.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-380\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-380\" title=\"Beneath the Shelter Stone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7845-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7845-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7845.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beneath the Shelter Stone<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_381\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7848.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-381\" title=\"The Shelter Stone from the Side\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7848-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7848-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCF7848.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Shelter Stone from the Side<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shelter Stone\u00a0located at\u00a0J325274 is one of the best known wild camping spots in the Mournes. It lies on a steep hill facing the head of Ben Crom reservoir and is accessible by following a track from Hares Gap or by walking up from the Silent Valley Reservoir complex. It is a set of stone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":363,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions\/658"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}