Travel Information:
Well, what with Volcanoes exploding all over the place and transport services being occasonally uncertain, we felt you ought to know a bit about how you actually reach Wester Ross!
Wester Ross can be reached:
- from the east, by Inverness
- from the north through Ullapool
- from the south by Kyle of Lochalsh, gateway to the Isle of Skye
Wester Ross is a largely undiscovered jewel in north-west Scotland and is well worth being incorporated into your holiday through the Highlands.
Inverness is the capital of the Highlands and can be reached by road, rail and air. There are regular trains every day from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, London, etc. (timetables available online). Several buses services operate to Inverness from other main towns and cities including the CityLink coach services.
Day trips on a coach from Inverness are also available if you don't have much time but would like to visit Inverewe Gardens, Applecross, Torridon, etc. and don't have a car. Click here for coach trip details.
Inverness Airport (at Dalcross) is 8 miles out of town with regular buses running Mondays-Saturdays. Taxis and car hire available at the airport. Flights are operated by
Visitors can also approach Wester Ross via Ullapool, the main town in the north-west Highlands and the ferry terminal for the Hebridean island of Lewis.
The other approach is from the south via Kyle of Lochalsh which is the most popular route to the Isle of Skye enabling you to see the photogenic Eilean Donan Castle. Kyle can be easily reached by train and bus.
Among our visitors each year are at least several hundred people who reckon that all they have to do in order to reach this area is to appear at Inverness Bus Station and hop on to one of the many buses going to Achnasheen, Applecross, Gairloch or Aultbea. Well, it's not quite as simple as that! The fact is that Public Transport facilities in Wester Ross are somewhat limited.
You can visit TravelineScotland.com which is an online searchable database for public transport timetables in Scotland.
The Westerbus service operates between Inverness and Gairloch (Monday-Saturday). This bus service is comfortable, reliable and good value for money. Not only that, but it calls at all the major settlements along the route of the A832 which is the main traffic road throughout much of the area. (No actual website that we are aware of)
Finally, for a good local site with a great deal of useful travel information, try Hans Zell's guide to travelling to and from the area. This has a focus on the Lochcarron area, but is packed with information / contact details on how to reach many other remote (and sometimes difficult to reach places) such as Applecross.
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“A simply beautiful part of the world. I stayed near Gairloch with my family recently, and we'll certainly be back.”
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