Lairig Ghru
- Connects
- Coire Bhrochain – Gleann Einich
- Tonight
- -3°CFog · Wind 11 km/h SW
Lairig Ghru is a mountain pass at 829 m in Scotland, United Kingdom. It links Coire Bhrochain and Gleann Einich.
All facts
- Saddle
- 829 m
- Lowest point
- 609 m / 717 m
Lairig Ghru: the climb from each side
Crossed by: a mapped trail
Distances are straight lines from the saddle to the lowest ground on each side; the road is longer.
Lairig Ghru 3D map
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Lairig Ghru terrain and contours
50 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.
Lairig Ghru elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lairig Ghru weather
Tonight · Fog · -3°C (27°F) · Wind 11 km/h SW
Lairig Ghru forecast for about 829 m.
- Tonight-3°–11 km/h SW
- Today-2°3°24.9 mm47 km/h SE
- Sun0°3°9.3 mm50 km/h W
- Mon1°3°10.1 mm32 km/h SE
- Tue1°8°6.2 mm44 km/h SW
- Wed2°5°0.8 mm19 km/h SW
- Thu4°7°–12 km/h S
- Fri5°6°7.7 mm18 km/h SE
- Sat1°6°17.5 mm22 km/h SE
- Sun0°1°23.0 mm14 km/h NW
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 near Lairig Ghru
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lairig Ghru, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Hutchinson Memorial Hut
Nearest parking
Coire Cas Car Park
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Hutchinson Memorial HutHut | 5.1 km ESE |
| Parking | 5.1 km NNE |
| Coire Cas Car ParkParking | 5.1 km NNE |
| Corrour BothyHut | 5.5 km S |
| Sugarbowl car parkParking | 6.2 km N |
| Fords of Avon Refuge HutHut | 7.0 km ENE |
Slope
Share of the 8 × 8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 15.8% of the 64 km² view
- Relief in view
- 847 m low point 461 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 4 km of Lairig Ghru.
Summit list 5
- 1Sron na Lairige1,184 m 1.1 km SW
- 2Cairn Lochan1,216 m 1.7 km NE
- 3Braeriach1,296 m 2.5 km WSW
- 4Ben Macdui1,309 m 2.7 km SE
- 5Stob Coire an t-Sneachda1,176 m 2.8 km NE
Where Lairig Ghru sits
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
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- Terrain
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- 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)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Panorama
- 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)