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Scottish Highlands Road Trip

3 daysScottish HighlandsPlanned by Trippad

Three days from Glasgow into the big country — Glen Coe's walls, the Glenfinnan viaduct and the Road to the Isles, then Loch Ness and the Cairngorm passes home.

Day 1 of 3

Day 1

7 stops09:00 – 20:002h 55m transit

09:00 – 10:00·1h
Loch Lomond first stop
An hour out of Glasgow, pull in at Luss: slate cottages, a pier pointing up the loch, and Ben Lomond across the water. Coffee from the village shop, then north.
Luss
Driving·30m
10:30 – 11:15·45m
Falls of Falloch and Rannoch Moor
A five-minute forest walk to a peat-brown waterfall, then the A82 climbs onto Rannoch Moor — ten miles of bog, lochans and nothing, one of Europe's last true wildernesses.
Falls of Falloch
Driving·45m
12:00 – 13:00·1h
Glen Coe and the Three Sisters
The moor funnels into the most dramatic glen in Scotland. Park at the Three Sisters viewpoint and give the walls time — the massacre story and the geology both demand it.
Three Sisters of Glen Coe
Driving·10m
13:15 – 14:30·1h 15m
Lunch at the Clachaig Inn
The climbers' inn at the glen's foot: venison casserole, 400 malts behind the Boots Bar, and a "no hawkers or Campbells" sign only half-joking. Essential Highlands.
Clachaig Inn
Driving·45m
15:15 – 16:15·1h
Glenfinnan Monument and viaduct
Where the '45 rising raised its standard — and where the Jacobite steam train crosses the 21-arch viaduct. Check the timetable; catching a crossing doubles the stop.
Glenfinnan Viaduct
Driving·30m
16:45 – 18:00·1h 15m
Road to the Isles: silver sands of Morar
The A830 west runs past white-sand bays with Eigg and Rùm on the horizon. Camusdarach beach (Local Hero's beach) for a barefoot half hour, then into Mallaig.
Camusdarach Beach
Driving·15m
18:30 – 20:00·1h 30m
Fish supper in Mallaig
The ferry port does the west coast's best fish and chips — haddock off the day boats at the Cornerstone, herring gulls negotiating hard. Sleep here or back in Fort William.
Mallaig

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