Culardoch

About Culardoch

Culardoch is a smooth, heathery summit in the Cairngorms, north-east of Braemar in Aberdeenshire and lying south-east of the Munro Ben Avon. From the top the view opens out widely across Aberdeenshire.

It reaches exactly 900 m, and sits within the Cairngorms National Park as a Corbett, Marilyn, HuMP and Simm.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Culardoch (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

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 57.073, -3.332. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

15-Jan-03

Drop measured from

NO139971 · 588 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.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Nearest listed peaks