Pen y Garn (head of the cairn) is a mountain in the Cambrian Mountains, Mid Wales standing at 611 metres above sea level.

Pen y Garn tops a 500–600 m high plateau, which includes the controversial Cefn Croes wind farm.

The summit has a very large shelter cairn hollowed out from the remains of an ancient burial cairn and a trig point.

To the north some 10 km, the whole Plynlimon range can be seen, including the summits of Y Garn, Pen Pumlumon Fawr, Pen Pumlumon Llygad-bychan and Pen Pumlumon Arwystli.

21 km to the west is the town of Aberystwyth; Drygarn Fawr lies 20 km to the SSE .