| Lochaber loch | |
| Pushpin Map: | Scotland Dumfries and Galloway |
| Location: | Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland |
| Coords: | 55.0162°N -3.6892°W[1] |
| Type: | freshwater loch |
| Outflow: | Kirkgunzeon Lane |
| Basin Countries: | Scotland |
| Length: | 0.5miles[2] |
| Width: | 0.25miles |
| Area: | 19.9ha |
| Depth: | 20.5feet |
| Max-Depth: | 55feet |
| Volume: | 47000000ft3 |
| Shore: | 2.2km (01.4miles) |
| Elevation: | 91m (299feet) |
| Islands: | 0 |
Lochaber Loch is a small, lowland freshwater loch that lies among steep-sided hills, approximately 4.5miles to the west of Dumfries, Scotland.[3] The loch is somewhat triangular in shape and is 0.5miles long and 0.25miles at its widest point. It has an average depth of 20.5feet and is 55feet at its deepest. The loch was surveyed on 4 May 1905 by James Murray and L.W. Collett[4] as part of Sir John Murray's Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.
Swans, great crested grebes and ospreys can be seen on the loch. There is a bird hide on the water's edge.[5]
The loch in the Mabie Forest, which is managed by the Forestry Commission.