They occupy a narrow glen running southwest to northeast, and roughly parallel with Loch Laggan, from which they are separated by the Binnein Shuas range of hills.

The Munros of Geal Charn and Creag Pitridh are the highest peaks of the hills to the southeast.

[5] The west loch sits an elevation of 351 metres (1,151.7 ft), and is 2.8 kilometres (1.75 mi) in length.

It has a surface area of 106 hectares (263 acres), and contains 11,600,000 cubic metres (408,000,000 cu ft) of water.

It is the smaller of the two lochs, being 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) long, with a surface area of 59 hectares (146 acres), and contains 5,400,000 cubic metres (191,000,000 cu ft) of water.