Scotland · Cairngorms National Park

Little Glas Maol

Height
972 m · 3,189 ft
Grid reference
NO 17591 75951
Coordinates
56.86769, -3.35342
County / area
Angus
OS Landranger
43
OS Explorer
OL52N OL53S 387N 388S
Summit feature
small cairn
Key col
NO 1728 7611 (951.1 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 56.868, -3.353. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (972 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

small cairn is 20cm higher than cairn 20m SSE at NO 17600 75934.

The recorded summit point is small 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
05-Feb-23
Drop measured from
NO 1728 7611 · 951.1 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

Little Glas Maol 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, 951 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
Glas Maol 1067.7 m 1.1 km
Druim Mor 962 m 1.9 km
Meall Odhar 922 m 2.4 km
Creag Leacach 988.2 m 2.5 km
Cairn of Claise 1063.1 m 3.1 km
Creag Leacach SW Top 943.7 m 3.2 km