Mountain · Scotland

Castle Rock

130 m427 ft

Prominence: 48 m158 ft
Isolation: 1.5 km
Tonight: 4°CPartly cloudy · Wind 19 km/h W

Castle Rock is a 130 m (427 ft) mountain in Scotland, United Kingdom.

All facts

Elevation: 130 m · 427 ft
Nearest higher peak: Arthur's Seat (251 m)
Region: Scotland, United Kingdom
Coordinates: 55.9485° N, 3.1985° W

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3D map

Castle Rock 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Castle Rock terrain and contours

10 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 50 mShowing west → east through the summit

Castle Rock elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Castle Rock weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 4°C (39°F) · Wind 19 km/h W

Castle Rock forecast for the summit, about 130 m.

Tonight4°–19 km/h W
Today4°10°16.6 mm48 km/h SW
Sun7°9°–56 km/h W
Mon7°10°7.7 mm34 km/h S
Tue8°13°4.4 mm40 km/h S
Wed8°11°0.3 mm29 km/h SW
Thu8°12°0.1 mm12 km/h S
Fri9°12°8.6 mm16 km/h S
Sat6°11°3.7 mm19 km/h SE
Sun6°6°5.2 mm21 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 Castle Rock

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

Nearest parking
Castle Terrace
0.3 km WSW · +2 more within 0.3 km
Directions Map
Nearest campsite
Mortonhall Caravan and Camping Park
5.0 km SSE · +2 more within 5.2 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 6

Place	Distance
Parking	0.2 km SSE
Castle TerraceParking	0.3 km WSW
Parking	0.3 km SSW
Mortonhall Caravan and Camping ParkCampsite	5.0 km SSE
Morton Hall camping caravaningCampsite	5.1 km SSE
Edinburgh Caravan ClubCampsite	5.2 km NW

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 95% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

95.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

4.1%

Steep, 30–45°

0.7%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.7% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 234 m low point 0 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Built-up 53.2%Trees 32.6%Grassland 13.7%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Castle Rock summit.

Summit list 8

1Calton Hill103 m 1.3 km NE
2Salisbury Crags173 m 1.6 km E
3Arthur's Seat251 m 2.4 km ESE
4The Nether Hill237 m 2.4 km ESE
5Crow Hill238 m 2.5 km ESE
6Whinny Hill178 m 2.6 km E
7Blackford Hill164 m 2.8 km S
8Dunsapie Crag146 m 3.0 km E

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 1,973 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Asian Lady Beetle761
Carrion Crow682
Eurasian Magpie678
Lesser Black-backed Gull610
Gorse597
Eurasian Moorhen577

Where it sits

Where Castle Rock sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Threipmuir ReservoirLake12 km SW

Downloads

Castle Rock downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGCastle Rock 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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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

13 m low This 3D map reads 117 m at the summit; the official height is 130 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	130 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	117 m	-13 m
Copernicus GLO-90	103 m	-27 m

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
Accuracy comparison: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © 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.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Castle Rock

West → east through the summit

Nearest parking

Nearest campsite

Data sources