Scotland · Cairngorms National Park

Cnap Coire na Spreidhe

Height
1151.5 m · 3,778 ft
Grid reference
NJ 01351 04899
Coordinates
57.12446, -3.63104
County / area
Highland
OS Landranger
36
OS Explorer
OL57S 403S
Summit feature
cairn on flat rock on large plateau
Key col
NJ 0097 0480 (1136.2 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

Sunrise
Sunset
Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 57.124, -3.631. 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

Surveyor's note

rocks 50m to NNW are c.40cm lower.

The recorded summit point is cairn on flat rock on large plateau. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level/Leica RX1250
Record revised
23-Nov-22
Drop measured from
NJ 0097 0480 · 1136.2 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

Cnap Coire na Spreidhe is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Ben Macdui (1,309 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 1,136 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
Cairn Gorm 1244.8 m 1.2 km
A' Choinneach 1017 m 1.9 km
Stob Coire an t-Sneachda 1176 m 2.6 km
Bynack Beg 970 m 3 km
Bynack More 1090 m 3.2 km
Beinn Mheadhoin 1182.9 m 3.4 km