Lochnagar - Cac Carn Beag
5 classifications here — Trail 100, 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
- 1155.7 m · 3,792 ft
- Prominence
- 671 m
- Grid reference
- NO 24372 86131
- Coordinates
- 56.96027, -3.24526
- County / area
- Aberdeenshire
- Region
- Braemar to Montrose
- OS Landranger
- 44
- OS Explorer
- OL53N 388N
- Summit feature
- rock tor 2m NE of trig point
- Key col
- NN999825 (485 m)
About Lochnagar - Cac Carn Beag
Lochnagar, also known as Beinn Chìochan, stands in the Mounth in the Grampians, about eight kilometres south of the River Dee near Balmoral. The name comes from Lochan na Gaire, the lochan at the foot of the mountain. It draws plenty of hillwalkers and has a reputation as a climbing venue in both summer and winter.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Lochnagar (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 56.960, -3.245. 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 rock tor 2m NE of trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- obvious summit/Leica RX1250
- Record revised
- 15-Dec-19
- Drop measured from
- NN999825 · 485 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.
The Lochnagar - Cac Carn Beag group
16 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Lochnagar - Cac Carn Beag as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Carn a' Choire Bhoidheach | 1,110 m | 73 m |
| Cuidhe Crom | 1,083 m | 40 m |
| Creag a' Ghlas-uillt | 1,067 m | 16 m |
| Eagles Rock | 1,049 m | 17 m |
| Carn an t-Sagairt Mor | 1,047 m | 85 m |
| Carn an t-Sagairt Beag | 1,044 m | 41 m |
| Cairn Bannoch | 1,011 m | 76 m |
| Fafernie | 999 m | 16 m |
| Broad Cairn | 997 m | 64 m |
| Cairn of Gowal | 989 m | 21 m |
| Creag an Dubh-loch | 983 m | 45 m |
| Meikle Pap | 980 m | 63 m |
Twelve highest shown, of 16 in the group.
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 Coire na Saobhaidhe | 973 m | 1.2 km |
| Meikle Pap | 980 m | 1.6 km |
| Creag a' Ghlas-uillt | 1066.9 m | 1.9 km |
| Cuidhe Crom | 1083.2 m | 2 km |
| Carn a' Choire Bhoidheach | 1109.9 m | 2.3 km |
| Eagles Rock | 1049.2 m | 2.4 km |