Loch Morlich
- Area
- 1.20 km²
- Tonight
- 0°CFair · Wind 11 km/h SW
Loch Morlich is a lake at 317 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 1.20 km² in area and 1.7 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 317 m
- Length
- 1.7 km
- Shoreline
- 5.3 km
Loch Morlich in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 5.3 km≈1¼ h to walk around
Loch Morlich 3D map
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Loch Morlich 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.
Loch Morlich elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Loch Morlich weather
Tonight · Fair · 0°C (32°F) · Wind 11 km/h SW
Loch Morlich forecast for about 317 m.
- Tonight0°–11 km/h SW
- Today1°6°23.3 mm42 km/h S
- Sun4°7°9.5 mm46 km/h W
- Mon4°6°7.6 mm28 km/h S
- Tue5°11°4.8 mm43 km/h SW
- Wed6°9°0.4 mm19 km/h SW
- Thu6°11°–8 km/h S
- Fri8°10°9.0 mm11 km/h S
- Sat5°9°16.0 mm14 km/h S
- Sun4°5°21.6 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 Loch Morlich
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Morlich, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Lochside
Nearest campsite
Glenmore Camp Site
Nearest hut
Ryvoan Bothy
Nearest caravan site
High Range Holiday Complex
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| LochsideParking | 0.5 km NNW |
| Loch MorlichParking | 0.7 km WNW |
| The BeachParking | 0.9 km NE |
| Glenmore Camp SiteCampsite | 1.1 km ENE |
| Ryvoan BothyHut | 4.7 km ENE |
| Rothiemurchus Camp and CaravanCampsite | 5.1 km WNW |
| High Range Holiday ComplexCaravan site | 7.6 km WNW |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 93% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.0% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 295 m low point 306 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 415 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Mallard60
- Common Chaffinch49
- Fly Agaric43
- Scots pine38
- Scotch Broom36
- Common heather33
Where Loch Morlich 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)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- 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)