Walking & Climbing

One walk much loved by our family and guests is the walk to Badachro Inn. Walk along the road for some 400 metres before passing through the metal kissing-gate on your left )before you get to Badachro Distillery). Follow the rocky path (which can be wet in bad weather), cross an old  footbridge, and then head on up to the road. Turn left and left again when you see the sign for the Inn.

There are many lovely coastal walks, though comparatively few coastal paths. You can walk to either Red Point beach, the one on Loch Torridon (past the farmhouse) being the longer of the two. Better still, why not link them with a walk around the Point itself? Often boggy and there’s a burn to cross, but always enjoyable if you go prepared. Read more here: Red Point Beaches.

Gairloch Beach & Pier is another lovely walk that blends beach with headland with ancient arboretum and a visit to bustling Gairloch Pier. There’s a cafe on the pier and and in Gairloch Golf Club’s clubhouse, and you also pass an ancient graveyard if you feel like a nap!

Flowerdale Glen, Gairloch takes you to a waterfall and back on a circular walk, and you can continue beyond the waterfall on rough ground up a steep-sided glen if you so choose.

And another lovely, slightly longer low-level walk is the Loch Kernsary round, at Poolewe

You are surrounded by a hillwalker’s paradise, and a satisfying starter – more of a walk than a climb –  takes you up to the Fairy Lochs, above Shieldaig Lodge Hotel.

However, for more seasoned hillwalker we love Slioch, and in Glen Torridon, Beinn Eighe, Liathach and Beinn Alligin. While to the north there is An Teallach, the remote Fisherfield 6 and the Fannichs – various routes on the WalkHighlands website.