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The West Highland Way (Scottish Gaelic: Slighe Taobh an Iar na Gàidhealtachd) is a linear long-distance route in Scotland.It is 154 km (96 miles) long, running from Milngavie north of Glasgow to Fort William in the Scottish Highlands, with an element of hill walking in the route. [3]
Around 36,000 of these walk the whole route – the vast majority in summer, resulting in crowded paths, packed accommodation, and mounting challenges for trail maintenance. ... The West Highland ...
West Highland Way, Scotland Loch Lomond is one of the highlights of the West Highland Way route (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Scotland’s most-loved long walking route is a 96-mile trek from ...
West Highland Way: 96 154: Scottish Lowlands to the Scottish Highlands: Milngavie, near Glasgow: Fort William, Highlands: Scotland's first and most popular long-distance walking route. [28] West Island Way: 30 48: Isle of Bute: Kilchattan Bay: Port Bannatyne: The first waymarked long-distance route on a Scottish island. [29]
It connects with the West Highland Way, North Highland Way and part of an alternative route suggested by Cameron McNeish which follows the Great Glen Way out of Fort William before joining the main route in Glen Shiel. [1] Waterfall, Allt an Duibhe. On the path going East from Dundonnell House towards Strath More.
The East Highland Way (EHW) route begins in Fort William where it engages with both the West Highland Way and the Great Glen Way. On leaving Fort William the route follows the old Ben Nevis access track past the aluminium works and Ben Nevis distillery continuing through broadleaf forests on the lower northern slopes of Carn Beag Dearg.
This is a route-map template for the West Highland Way, a trail in Scotland, the United Kingdom.. For a key to symbols, see {{trails legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The West Highland Way is followed for a short distance until a track is taken west along the north bank of the Abhainn Shira as far as the Clashgour hut which belongs to the Glasgow University Mountaineering Club but prior to 1933 was the local primary school. [9]