Scotland · Cairngorms National Park

Meall Coire na Saobhaidhe

Munro TopSimmMurdo

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Height
973 m · 3,192 ft
Grid reference
NO 24251 87288
Coordinates
56.97064, -3.24760
County / area
Aberdeenshire
OS Landranger
44
OS Explorer
OL53N 388N
Summit feature
cairn on outcrop
Key col
NO 2414 8686 (902.2 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

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Computed astronomically for 56.971, -3.248. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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Finding the summit

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

Survey method
Leica RX1250
Record revised
31-Oct-22
Drop measured from
NO 2414 8686 · 902.2 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

Meall Coire na Saobhaidhe is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Lochnagar - Cac Carn Beag (1,156 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 902 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
Lochnagar - Cac Carn Beag 1155.7 m 1.2 km
Meikle Pap 980 m 2.1 km
Cuidhe Crom 1083.2 m 2.9 km
Creag a' Ghlas-uillt 1066.9 m 3.1 km
Carn a' Choire Bhoidheach 1109.9 m 3.2 km
Eagles Rock 1049.2 m 3.5 km