Lake · Scotland

Black Loch

215 m705 ft

Area: 0.50 km²
Tonight: 3°CPartly cloudy · Wind 12 km/h SW

Black Loch is a lake at 215 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 0.50 km² in area and 1.0 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 215 m
Length: 1.0 km
Shoreline: 3.0 km

Open the 3D view

Lake

Black Loch in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 3.0 km≈45 min to walk around

3D map

Black Loch 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Black Loch terrain and contours

5 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 25 mShowing west → east through the centre

Black Loch elevation profile

West → east through the centre

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.

Weather

Black Loch weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 3°C (37°F) · Wind 12 km/h SW

Black Loch forecast for about 215 m.

Tonight3°–12 km/h SW
Today4°9°20.8 mm49 km/h SW
Sun6°9°0.5 mm47 km/h W
Mon6°9°11.0 mm30 km/h S
Tue7°12°9.0 mm45 km/h SW
Wed8°11°0.9 mm26 km/h SW
Thu7°11°0.1 mm12 km/h S
Fri9°12°10.7 mm15 km/h SE
Sat5°12°3.0 mm24 km/h S
Sun5°6°4.3 mm17 km/h W

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Black Loch

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Black Loch, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest parking
Blawhorn Moss Nature Reserve Car Park
2.9 km SE · +2 more within 3.0 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Parking	2.8 km SW
Blawhorn Moss Nature Reserve Car ParkParking	2.9 km SE
Parking	3.0 km SW

Slope

Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 100% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

99.6%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.4%

Steep, 30–45°

0.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.0% of the 16 km² view
Relief in view: 68 m low point 169 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 61.0%Trees 33.3%Water 3.3%Cropland 1.3%Built-up 0.9%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Black Loch sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Castle RockPeak · 130 m39 km E

Downloads

Black Loch downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGBlack Loch satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-15.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-07-15)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · Wikipedia

Black Loch

West → east through the centre

Nearest parking