Paths Around Paths Around 1 Tain & Morangie Forest Paths Around RossRoss && CromartyCromarty 6 Lochcarron These leaflets provide details of a variety Lochcarron District is located in the heart of Wester of opportunities for recreation in and Paths Around Inverewe Ross amidst some of Britain’s finest and wildest natural scenery. Lochcarron is an excellent base for a holiday around the Tain area. 4 Paths Around Pinewood Trail with good road and rail links. No location has a better The landscape around Inverewe has changed many Local attractions include: 3 range of access in the North-West Highlands. Garve times over thousands of years. Trees have come and D Tain Through Time -Visitor Centre including Strathgarve Lochcarron also offers beautiful and varied walking gone depending on the climate, soils, and the influence The Pilgrimage, Tain Museum, the Collegiate The lush, flat pastures of opportunities for all abilities and ages. Charming of humans and animals. Walk the Pinewood Trail Church of St Duthus (one of the finest Strathgarve nestle below woodland and riverside strolls, old hill paths, forest trails and find out what has happened to the medieval buildings in Scotland) and tourist the steep wooded hillsides and demanding hill-walks to our local Munros – there is Drovers Road, Garve landscape and what may happen next…. information for the wider area; of the many neighbouring a great choice for all tastes. The Local Walks Guide The trail starts by the Inverewe Gardens D Glenmorangie Whisky Distillery and Visitor hills and mountains. Situated on the banks of the Black describes a selection of these walks restaurant and crosses the main road. Centre; Water in the Strath is the village of Garve, named from and indicates the full range of local Follow the indicator posts, passing D Tain Golf Club & Old Tom Morris the Gaelic Garbh meaning a “rough place”. The area has visitor attractions. Most routes are through the forest gate and follow the designed course; many opportunities for walking, cycling and horse circular to suit car-owners and a posts round. The walk should take D The Links offering a bowling green, children’s riding, from short trails, moorland routes to steep hill few make excellent cycle trails. approx. 45 mins and you will enjoy views Glencarron pony track playpark, skateboard park, wildlife pond, climbs. of Poolewe village, Corsican pines, the football pitch and access to the Tain beach; Routes include: Torridon Hills and Beinn Airigh Charr. D Morangie Forest; D Lochcarron Village Walks; D Aldie burn trail; D Reraig Forest and Achintraid ; D Tarbat Discovery Centre - Portmahomack; D Attadale & Lochan Iasaich; D and Paths Around Stromeferry & Achmore; D The signed Pictish Trail passes through Tain 7 D Bealach na Ba Tops; and also the Fearn peninsula villages of Nigg, 5 Flowerdale D Sgurr na Feartaig; Balintore, Shandwick and Portmahomack. Flowerdale forms part of the Gairloch Estate, D Carron River Walks; and which has been in the hands of the MacKenzie of D Coulags and Maol Chean-dearg. 4 Gairloch family for seventeen generations. 1 Paths Around Among the main activities carried out within the Gabhail a Chreig 2 5 Estate are farming, crofting, power generation via 7 Taking the Rock, Achiltibuie Avoch 3 8 The fishing village of Avoch lies hydro electricity, forestry, sawmilling, angling, deer Ben Mor Coigach, traditionally known as ‘the Rock’, stalking and tourism. approx 15 miles north of Inverness on 2 slopes steeply down to the sea, apparently cutting off the peninsula known as the Black Isle. the Coigach peninsula from the outside world. Until the The harbour was designed by Thomas Flowerdale has a microclimate of its own and 20th century people came and went either by boat or by Telford and the tightly packed 6 subsequently supports a wide range of plants and taking one of the rough paths that went ‘through the animals not commonly found in the Gairloch area. fishermen’s cottages show the strong All maps©Crown copyright, The Highland Council 100023369 2005 Rock’. This was the local highway, regularly walked until association of the village with the sea. superseded by the road which was not tarmaced until Silverbridge Working boats are still registered in Walks around the estate include: the 1960’s. The forest trail at Silverbridge is a delightful riverside Avoch but the harbour is now D The Waterfall Walk (3.5km); In the 1860’s a regular postal service began to bring the walk straddling both sides of the Blackwater from predominantly used by recreational D The Cherry Hill Walk (5km); and mail from Ullapool to Rhu by ‘taking the Rock’. The Littlegarve to Silverbridge. The route offers many craft. D The Woodland Walk (1.5km). contract was awarded to Kenneth McLennan of glimpses of the small waterfalls and bedrock Blairbuie and it remained in his family for more than 50 formations along the river, which are both discreet and Local attractions include: years. As Postman he walked to Ullapool twice a week impressive natural features. On a more modern For more information on these walks, D Waterfalls and walks in the Fairy Glen; for 2/3d a time, a journey that could be made in a day magnitude are the two hump backed bridges at look out for the leaflet D Rosemarkie - seal and dolphin watching from during the summer. In the 1870’s a school was opened in Littlegarve (Wades Bridge) and Silverbridge. “Paths Around Flowerdale”. Chanonry Point; Achduart and the school board built a path from D Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Course; Coulnacraig to Achduart for the children. This path is These were constructed around 1762 as part of the D Fortrose Cathedral; now referred to as the Postie’s Path and was repaired in military road from Contin to Poolewe, thought to be D Groam House Museum; 2004 for the benefit of visitors and the community. the work of Major Caulfield who succeeded General D Rosemarkie Dolphin trips from Avoch Harbour; Improvements were made to the lower path in 2004 to Wade, the famous road builder. and make it easier to follow. However it retains the D Black Isle Brewery, Munlochy. character and difficulties of a mountain path.