Scotland

Carn na Criche

Munro TopSimmMurdo

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Carn na Criche, 962 m, Highland
Carn na Criche, 962 m, Highland. Photo by David Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
961.7 m · 3,155 ft
Grid reference
NH 19622 72522
Coordinates
57.70627, -5.02908
County / area
Highland
OS Landranger
20
OS Explorer
436S
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
NH 1994 7222 (891 m)

Access rights here

Yes Right to roam: Statutory right of responsible access to most land and inland water.

Yes Wild camping: Wild camping is broadly lawful under the 2003 Act.

General position for Scotland — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Scotland · check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 57.706, -5.029. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
obvious summit/Leica RX1250
Record revised
16-Jan-21
Drop measured from
NH 1994 7222 · 891 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Which hill this one belongs to

Carn na Criche is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Sgurr Mor (1,109 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 891 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks

PeakHeightDistance
Sgurr Mor 1108.9 m 1 km
Meall a' Chrasgaidh 934 m 1.4 km
Sgurr nan Clach Geala 1093 m 1.6 km
Meall nam Peithirean 974.3 m 2 km
Beinn Liath Mhor Fannaich 954.2 m 2.3 km
Sgurr nan Each 923 m 3 km