Scotland

Meall Glas Choire

Height
924 m · 3,031 ft
Grid reference
NN 43678 72773
Coordinates
56.82016, -4.56287
County / area
Highland
OS Landranger
42
OS Explorer
OL50 385E 393
Summit feature
embedded boulder
Key col
NN 4372 7298 (903 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 56.820, -4.563. 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

Surveyor's note

larger boulder 30m W is slightly lower.

The recorded summit point is embedded boulder. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
07-Oct-20
Drop measured from
NN 4372 7298 · 903 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 Glas Choire is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Geal-charn (1,132 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 903 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
Mullach Coire nan Nead 922 m 0.9 km
Beinn Eibhinn 1103.3 m 1.4 km
Aonach Beag 1115.8 m 2.5 km
Geal-charn 1132 m 3.8 km
Sgor Choinnich 928.6 m 4.5 km
Sgor Gaibhre 954.7 m 5.4 km