[1] Its outflow, Allt an Dubh-loch, empties into Loch Muick approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the southeast near the royal lodge Glas-allt-Shiel.

To the northwest the ground slopes steeply up to Càrn a' Coire Boidheach and Lochnagar.

[3] To the west is Cairn Bannoch and over a high col to the southwest lies Loch Callater.

Creag an Dubh Loch is about 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi) long and generally about 200 metres (660 ft) high – at its highest it is 270 metres (890 ft) making it the highest continuous rock face in the Cairngorms.

Once her son Alfred swam out into the loch to capture and kill a wounded stag in the water.