Scotland

Na Gruagaichean NW Top · Na Gruagaichean North Top

Munro TopSimmMurdo

2 classifications here — Simm and Murdo — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Na Gruagaichean NW Top, 1039 m, Highland
Na Gruagaichean NW Top, 1039 m, Highland. Photo by Rmaclean3, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Height
1038.8 m · 3,408 ft
Grid reference
NN 20111 65433
Coordinates
56.74578, -4.94330
County / area
Highland
OS Landranger
41
OS Explorer
392
Summit feature
large cairn
Key col
NN 20270 65304 (994.5 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 56.746, -4.943. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (1039 m)…

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

Finding the summit

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

Survey method
Leica RX1250
Record revised
28-May-17
Drop measured from
NN 20270 65304 · 994.5 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

Na Gruagaichean NW Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Binnein Mor (1,130 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 995 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
Na Gruagaichean 1054.3 m 0.3 km
Binnein Mor South Top 1062 m 1 km
Binnein Mor 1130 m 1.4 km
Stob Coire a' Chairn 981.3 m 1.7 km
An Garbhanach 974.9 m 1.7 km
Sgor Eilde Beag 955.7 m 1.9 km