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the Cairngorms

Cairngorm Road

C1126

  • Moorland
  • Forest
Plan a drive around it
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18 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the C1126 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
11.4 km
How curvy
Gently winding
8% curviness — Easy curves rather than corners.
Curvy metres
917
How these scores are measured

Curvy metres is curviness multiplied by length: how much genuine curve this road actually gives you, rather than how tight its tightest corner is. It is the number that separates a mountain pass from a housing estate.

Speed limits along it

What is on the poles along this stretch, by share of its length.

  • 30 mph31%
  • 40 mph7%
  • 50 mph62%

Runs past

  • Coylumbridge·hamlet·10 m
  • Glenmore·hamlet·10 m
  • Inverdruie·hamlet·1.4 km

Distances are approximate: the closest this stretch is known to come.

Worth stopping at

The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

No Twistly drives use the C1126 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the C1126

Photographs taken within about a kilometre of this stretch, from Wikimedia Commons. They are near the road — we have no evidence any of them shows it.