Scotland · Cairngorms National Park

Creag Leacach SW Top

Height
943.7 m · 3,096 ft
Grid reference
NO 14942 74163
Coordinates
56.85115, -3.39626
County / area
Angus/Perth and Kinross
OS Landranger
43
OS Explorer
OL52N 387N
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
NO 1506 7416 (919.7 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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Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 56.851, -3.396. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

cairn is 5cm higher than outcrop 20m W at NO 14921 74164; ground 15m SW over wall at NO 14944 74151 is 0.5m lower.

The recorded summit point is cairn. 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
22-Aug-15
Drop measured from
NO 1506 7416 · 919.7 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

Creag Leacach SW Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Glas Maol (1,068 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 920 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
Creag Leacach 988.2 m 0.6 km
Glas Maol 1067.7 m 3 km
Little Glas Maol 972 m 3.2 km
Meall Odhar 922 m 3.2 km
The Cairnwell 933 m 3.5 km
Monamenach 807 m 4.4 km