NC500

[ph001]

Will endorse the anti-clockwise suggestion, but the return from the end of the Applecross pass back to Inverness is as dull, if not even more dull than the run north from Inverness. No, it is even more dull than that section

I assume you mean the A890 / A832? Yeh, not the best although the part through Balnacra is quite impressive.

This would be my ideal optimised route if I were to do the NC500 again. Note - I have done the A87 into Skye twice before (which is amazing) so purposely excluded that this time around.

 

[Nick_in_Suffolk]

I like your alternative route, ph001, but there is another route through the Cairngorms, Braemar, Ballater, Tomintoul?

 

[mr wilks]

I like your alternative route, ph001, but there is another route through the Cairngorms, Braemar, Ballater, Tomintoul?

Anyone heading north towards Edinburgh east side should definitely go via Pitlochry - Glenshee - Braemar & Cairngorms its epic stuff going either direction

 

[ph001]

I like your alternative route, ph001, but there is another route through the Cairngorms, Braemar, Ballater, Tomintoul?

Sure..it's an easy detour (albeit 100 miles!). Look at my image #3, you just go right off the A9 at Pitlochry. Again, done this a few times previously so wasn't on my bucket list this time around as I'm planning to do all this in 5 days. Certainly spectacular though.

 

[MrPT]

Loch Leven is worth a few laps if you’re passing near Glencoe.

 

[jamesditchy]

The scenery is stunning with amazing beaches these were taken up at Durness and Kinlochbervie up on the North West tip

It’s almost a match for Wigan

Some lovely pics there. Yes doing it in the zed, hopefully get some roof down weather but you never know in Bonny Scotland

 

[Anonymous]

Cairngorms is a must buddy
I went from my birth town if Hamilton to Glasgow to loch lomond to loch Ness to fort william to Inverness to avemore to boat of garten then back

Being a Scot with a loud M sadly no longer with the amazing ex I went with but it's stunning

 

[jamesditchy]

Cairngorms is a must buddy
I went from my birth town if Hamilton to Glasgow to loch lomond to loch Ness to fort william to Inverness to avemore to boat of garten then back

Being a Scot with a loud M sadly no longer with the amazing ex I went with but it's stunning

I'm heading up to Glasgow then on to Glencoe, through fort William then up the side of loch Ness to our first stop on loch Ness before starting the route. So many good suggestions looks like we will be spoilt for choice on things to see

 

[Anonymous]

Good boy have fun

Best way we enjoyed it was to simply drive and around 5pm. She hit late rooms.com and we paid hardly anything on hotels
More for fuel and dinner