Chno Dearg
4 classifications here — Marilyn, HuMP, Simm and Murdo — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 1046 m · 3,432 ft
- Prominence
- 644 m
- Grid reference
- NN 37744 74105
- Coordinates
- 56.83008, -4.66083
- County / area
- Highland
- OS Landranger
- 41
- OS Explorer
- OL50 393
- Summit feature
- large cairn
- Key col
- NN369661 (402 m)
About Chno Dearg
Chno Dearg, written An Cro Dearg in Gaelic, is a Lochaber hill looking north over Glen Spean and west towards Loch Treig.
Its summit stands at 1,046 m, which makes it a Munro, and it is additionally listed as a Marilyn, HuMP, Simm and Murdo.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Chno Dearg (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
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 56.830, -4.661. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
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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 large cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- obvious summit
- Record revised
- 27-Jun-14
- Drop measured from
- NN369661 · 402 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.
Reaching Chno Dearg by train
2 National Rail stations sit within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.
Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).
The Chno Dearg group
3 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Chno Dearg as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Stob Coire Sgriodain | 979 m | 90 m |
| Meall Garbh | 976 m | 53 m |
| Stob Coire Sgriodain South Top | 958 m | 45 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Meall Garbh | 976 m | 1.5 km |
| Stob Coire Sgriodain South Top | 958 m | 1.8 km |
| Stob Coire Sgriodain | 979 m | 2.1 km |
| Beinn na Lap | 935 m | 4.5 km |
| Mullach Coire nan Nead | 922 m | 5.3 km |
| Stob a' Choire Mheadhoin | 1105 m | 6.1 km |