Difference between revisions of "Highland (Scotland)"

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Highland is a county in Scotland.

Regions

Cities, towns and villages

Map of Highland

Cities

• Inverness

Towns

• Aviemore
• Cromarty
• Dornoch
• Fort William
• Mallaig
• Tain
• Thurso
• Ullapool
• Wick

Villages

• Achiltibuie
• Arisaig
• Dornie
• Durness
• Glencoe
• Glenfinnan

Glenfinnan Monument

• Inverie
• Kyle of Lochalsh
• Plockton
• Portmahomack
• Strathpeffer
• Torridon

Other destinations

Islands

• The Summer Isles- an archipelago of small islands near Achiltibuie

Mountains

There are far to many mountains in Scotland to cover them all here.

General definitions: Munroe - mountain above 3000 feet. Corbett - mountains between 2500 and 3000 feet.

Some popular mountains by group

Far north

• Ben Hope
• Ben Loyal
• Foinaven
• Ben Stack - neither particularly high nor well known but a little gem.

northern Torridonian mountains - i.e. Mountains of Torridonian sandstone north of Ullapool.

• Quinag - An easy Corbett for beginners as it's possible to start well up from the main road south from Kylescu.
• Suilven - easier than it looks but its distance from roads makes it a challenge.
• Cul Mor
• Cul Beag
• Stac Pollaidh - Less than a Corbett but with an outstanding shape and rock ridge -unfotunately much eroded because of its proximity to the road.
  

  

  Beinn Aligin

Torridonian Munroes

• An Teallach - a fairly hard ridge walk above Little Loch Broom.
• Slioch - on the 'non-road' side of Loch Maree.
• Bein Eigh - above the Loch Maree road and much of the road from Kinlochewe to Torridon.
• Liathach - above the village of Torridon.
• Beinn Aligin - above the minor road from Torridon to the Aligins and Lower Diabaig.
• Bein Bhann - otherwise known as the Applecross mountains.

Glencoe and Fort William

• 'Ben Nevis - the highest start from the distillery on the road north.
• The Mamores - a picturesque group of numerous Munroes between Glen Nevis and Kinlochleven.
• Aonach Eagach - a superb ridge above Glencoe.
• The three sisters of Glencoe - shapely peaks on the other side of the glen.

Understand

Talk

Get in

Near Tulloch Station

Get around

See

Glen Affric

Itineraries

Do

Eat

Drink

Stay safe

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