Featured Rideout Roads Less Travelled, Number 2 "the Road To Nowhere"

If you enjoy roads to nowhere the 22 miles from Invergarry to Loch Hourn - especially late p.m. into the setting sun - provides wonderful views and minimal traffic!

 

Looks fantastic !!

 

Thanks for that, place noted and added to memory bank for future.
Weird as I'm getting older I can't remember where my keys are etc. but places and geography are indelibly ingrained

 

You’ve only got to get a bit of decent weather and Scotland takes some beating for scenery. I’ve had a holiday in Kinloch Rannock some years ago and it looks like I’m overdue another visit. Cheers Dougie D.

 

I've seen Kinloch Hourne from the sea - it was pretty interesting getting in there with a yacht. Very narrow entrance, shallow, and loads of hidden rocks. It was worth the effort though - absolutely stunning views, and otters playing on the shore.

 

I've often wondered, when passing the Glen Etive sign, what it'd be like - looks brilliant!

 

Well if you head out West to Loch Hourn just remember Loch Garry and Loch Quoich are man made; it is a drowned landscape like Loch Clunie to the North. The Garry used to be a great fishing river that supported hotels presumably now demolished or converted to other uses.....not much alternative use in the middle of a wilderness cul de sac! You gets glimpses of the old tumbling Garry between the dams..
I remember as a wondrous 6 or 7 (diggers and bulldozers!) being driven over now submerged roads as stretches of today’s roads and the dams were being built Funny how 60s genuinely effective hydroelectric renewables were less worried about environmental impacts than today’s useless windmills!

 

Some family really enjoyed loch garry, apparently...

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2607099245987336&id=100000618572100

 

Absolutely brilliant, stunning photos, Dougie! Thanks for sharing your views with us.

 

Absolutely disgusting... And there was a lot more than this...

"To the free loading family who enjoyed a weekend camping by the side of Loch Garry - YOU FORGOT SOMETHING your dirty nappies , milk cartons , raw burgers , human excrement and tissue and the rest of your rubbish . Who is going to clean up after you ? Who is paying for your weekend of fun ? What sort of people are you that bring your children away and think this is an okay way to treat a place of such beauty ? This scene is being repeated all over the Highlands by people having a free weekend in our amazing scenery and it’s the people who live here who get left with the consequences. Please share this post and I hope if the people who did this see it they feel a tiny bit of shame #lochgarry #kinlochhourn #highlands #scotland #freeloaders #freecamping #ruiningourplanet #whowillcleanup #summer #rubbish #noshame #wildcamping #wildcampingscotland"

 

I know they say it's not the destination, but the journey. You have managed to have them both on this trip. Absolutely beautiful place and road!