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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 21:46, 29 October 2010: 1,425 × 1,173 (1.35 MB): Nilfanion {{Information |Description=Map of the Cairngorms National Park, UK with the following information shown: *National Park boundary *Administrative borders *Coastline, lakes and rivers *Roads and railways *Urban areas Equirect
Cairngorms National Park (Scottish Gaelic: Pàirc Nàiseanta a' Mhonaidh Ruaidh) is a national park in northeast Scotland, established in 2003. It was the second of two national parks established by the Scottish Parliament , after Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park , which was set up in 2002.
The Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park is a full planning authority, exercising powers that would otherwise be exercised by the local authority, whilst the Cairngorms National Park has the power to "call in" planning decisions from the local authority where they are considered to conflict with the aims of the park. [28]
The Cairngorms became part of Scotland's second national park (the Cairngorms National Park) on 1 September 2003. [2] Although the Cairngorms give their name to, and are at the heart of, the Cairngorms National Park, they only form one part of the national park, alongside other hill ranges such as the Angus Glens and the Monadhliath , and lower ...
The Cairngorms National Park extends across a much wider area than the Cairngorms massif itself and hence displays rather more varied geology. The majority of the rocks within the National Park belong to the Dalradian Supergroup , a thick sequence of sands, muds and limestones that were deposited between about 800 and 600 million years ago on ...
The range is within the Highland council area, and the south and east fringes are within the Cairngorms National Park. The high point of the range is Càrn Dearg , at 945 metres (3,100 ft), located 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Inverness .
National scenic areas are designated by the IUCN as Category V Protected Landscapes, the same international category as Scotland's two national parks. [1] Within the United Kingdom the NSA designation is regarded as equivalent to the Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The forest park, which was established in 1948, [5] covers 35.7 km 2, [6] of which 21.1 km 2 is designated as a national nature reserve (NNR). [2] Glenmore surrounds Loch Morlich , and is below the rise of the Cairngorms to the south; to the north the park extends to the summit of Meall a' Bhuachaille .