Scotland

Stob Coire Lochan

Height
916.9 m · 3,008 ft
Grid reference
NH 11930 27160
Coordinates
57.29626, -5.12299
County / area
Highland
OS Landranger
25
OS Explorer
414N
Summit feature
no feature: ground 30m SE of small cairn
Key col
NH 1191 2702 (887.3 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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Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 57.296, -5.123. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

small cairn is at NH 11917 27188 and is 0.1m lower.

The recorded summit point is no feature: ground 30m SE of small cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Leica Disto D510/Leica RX1250
Record revised
31-Jul-14
Drop measured from
NH 1191 2702 · 887.3 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

Stob Coire Lochan is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Carn Eighe (1,183 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 887 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
Carn Eighe 1182.8 m 1.1 km
Beinn Fhionnlaidh 1004.8 m 1.2 km
Stob a' Choire Dhomhain 1146.5 m 1.4 km
Mam Sodhail 1179.4 m 1.8 km
Stob Coire Dhomhnuill 1139.1 m 2.1 km
Sron Garbh 1131 m 2.6 km