Loch Shiel National Scenic Area

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Description

Loch Shiel (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Seile) is a freshwater loch situated 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Fort William in the Highland council area of Scotland. At 28-kilometre-long (17 1⁄2 mi) it is the 4th longest loch in Scotland. The surrounding mountains are picturesque but relatively rarely climbed as none quite reaches the 3,000 ft (910 m) required for Munro status. A number of the hills are classified as Corbetts. The loch gives its name to Loch Shiel National Scenic Area, one of 40 such areas in Scotland, which are defined so as to identify areas of exceptional scenery and to ensure its protection via the planning system by the restriction of certain forms of development.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • The Cape Wrath Trail

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Beinn Odhar Bheag
  • Beinn Odhar Mhor
  • Càrn na Nathrach
  • Glaschoirean
  • Glenfinnan
  • Glenfinnan House Hotel
  • Glenfinnan Monument
  • Guesachan
  • Meall nan Creag Leac
  • Polloch
  • Resourie
  • Sgor an Tarmachain
  • The Prince's House Hotel

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Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from Viewfinderpanoramas.org (Jonathan de Ferranti). Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Gil Cavalcanti https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glenfinnan_monument_and_Loch_Shiel.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)