About this route
Scotland's answer to Route 66 — an 830 km loop around the wild north coast of the Scottish Highlands. Single-track roads, white-sand beaches, ruined castles, distilleries, and a landscape so empty it feels like the edge of the world, because it nearly is.
Stops on this route
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Start
Inverness
Start and end at the Highland capital.
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1
Applecross
Over the Bealach na Bà — the steepest road climb in Britain, then a tiny village facing Skye.
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2
Torridon
Ancient sandstone mountains — Liathach and Beinn Eighe, a billion years old.
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3
Ullapool
Whitewashed fishing village on Loch Broom — the ferry to the Outer Hebrides leaves from here.
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4
Durness
The northwest corner — Smoo Cave, Balnakeil Beach, and the Cape Wrath turning.
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5
John o'Groats
Not quite the northernmost point, but the famous one — the signpost, the sea stacks of Duncansby.
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6
Wick
Once the herring capital of Europe — Old Pulteney distillery.
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7
Dornoch
Medieval cathedral town with one of the world's great links golf courses.
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End
Inverness
Full loop back to Inverness.
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