Scotland · Cairngorms National Park

Sron Riach

Height
1113.7 m · 3,654 ft
Grid reference
NN 99995 97787
Coordinates
57.06031, -3.65059
County / area
Aberdeenshire
OS Landranger
36 43
OS Explorer
OL57S 403S
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
NN 9982 9793 (1090.5 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
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Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 57.060, -3.651. 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 cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Leica RX1250
Record revised
03-Jun-24
Drop measured from
NN 9982 9793 · 1090.5 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 Riach is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Ben Macdui (1,309 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 1,091 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
Ben Macdui 1309.3 m 1.6 km
Derry Cairngorm 1155.8 m 1.8 km
Creagan a' Choire Etchachan 1107.2 m 2.2 km
Carn a' Mhaim 1037 m 2.6 km
Sgurr an Lochan Uaine 982.9 m 2.9 km
Carn Etchachan 1120 m 3.1 km