Scotland

Sron Coire a' Chriochairein

Height
991.9 m · 3,254 ft
Grid reference
NN 44796 89915
Coordinates
56.97437, -4.55506
County / area
Highland
OS Landranger
34 42
OS Explorer
OL50 OL55 393 401
Summit feature
small cairn
Key col
NN 4450 8993 (966.5 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

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Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 56.974, -4.555. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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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 small cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
obvious summit/Leica RX1250
Record revised
02-Mar-24
Drop measured from
NN 4450 8993 · 966.5 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

Sron Coire a' Chriochairein is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Creag Meagaidh (1,128 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 967 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
Meall an t-Snaim 969.3 m 1.2 km
Stob Poite Coire Ardair 1052.5 m 2.2 km
Sron a' Choire 1001.8 m 2.2 km
Carn Liath 1006.1 m 2.5 km
Puist Coire Ardair 1070.8 m 2.9 km
Creag Meagaidh 1128.1 m 3.8 km