Easy waymarked walk with beautiful views across Loch Torridon. The walk includes a beauiful section of shoreline.
Bog Factor
Clear marked path and track with short steeper section.
Car park at Beinn Bar.
None to start.
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Start from the parking for Torridon Activities/Beinn Bar (the entrance after the Torridon Hotel turn off the A896 heading east between Torridon and Sheildaig). From the car park head into the courtyard behind the Beinn Bar and follow the track over a small bridge. At the cross-tracks, keep straight ahead - our route follows the markers for 'Torridon Trail'.
The track continues through the pinewoods - great effort has been made in recent years to restore these to good condition, after the area was blighted by invasive rhododendrons. It is now starting to recover its former glory. Eventually a junction is reached - the track ahead continues towards the Falls of Balgy - a much longer walk - whereas our route turns right onto a path, signed for Torridon Trail.
The path winds through the trees, passes through a gate, gives a view over the boathouse to the left, and then descends steeply to reach a track. Turn right along the track along the loch shores. There are superb views across the water towards Torridon village and Liathach looming behind.
Continue along the shore, with an increasinly lovely view back over the pine-clad islet of Eilean Chasgaig across Loch Torridon to the mountain of Beinn Alligin on the far side. This is a good spot to catch a sighting of herons, oystercatchers and otters. Eventually the track swings right away from the loch. Turn left through a gate signed for the Kitchen Garden. Head into this walled garden which still produces vegetables for the Loch Torridon hotel. Turn right in the centre of the garden to pass alongside the polytunnels, passing through a gate to leave the garden and join a track. Turn right along the track to return to the start.
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