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Harbor
Ullapool harbour and Loch Broom
Deep natural harbour on Loch Broom used by the Stornoway ferry, fishing boats, leisure craft and cruise ships.
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Ullapool, Coigach & Assynt: things to do
Places worth your time in Ullapool, Coigach & Assynt
Top places
Things to do in Ullapool, Coigach & Assynt
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Museum
Ullapool Museum
Local museum on West Argyle Street covering fishing, maritime history, Gaelic culture and everyday life in Ullapool. It opens seasonally.
Island
Isle Martin
Uninhabited island in Loch Broom, once a monastery site, herring curing station and flour mill, now owned by a community trust.
Gorge and waterfall
Corrieshalloch Gorge
Gorge about 60 m deep where the 46 m Falls of Measach are seen from a Victorian suspension bridge; National Trust for Scotland.
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Mountain
An Teallach
Torridonian sandstone mountain group south of Little Loch Broom; its highest top, Bidean a' Ghlas Thuill, reaches 1,062 m.
Islands
Summer Isles
Archipelago at the mouth of Loch Broom, seen from the Coigach coast around Achiltibuie and Altandhu.
Mountain
Stac Pollaidh
Rocky Torridonian sandstone peak just over 610 m high, popular because the path starts from the road.
Nature reserve and geology trail
Knockan Crag
Crag in the North West Highlands Geopark where older Moine schists sit above younger rocks, the subject of the 19th-century Highlands Controversy.
Mountain
Suilven
Steep-sided ridge about two kilometres long rising from the moorland and lochans of Assynt, east of Lochinver.
Ruined castle
Ardvreck Castle
Ruin on a rocky promontory in Loch Assynt, dating from about 1490 and linked to the Macleods of Assynt.
Garden
Inverewe Garden
Garden created from 1862 by Osgood Mackenzie on the shore north of Poolewe, now cared for by the National Trust for Scotland.
Photo credits
- Ullapool, Coigach & Assynt (area photo): Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ullapool harbour and Loch Broom: Thewhale (Walter A. Lüthi), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ullapool Museum: GentryGraves, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Isle Martin: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Corrieshalloch Gorge: Wojsyl, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- An Teallach: David Crocker, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Summer Isles: David Fowlie, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Stac Pollaidh: Ian Paterson, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Knockan Crag: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Suilven: Grinner (English Wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ardvreck Castle: StaraBlazkova, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Inverewe Garden: Alexandre Dulaunoy from Les Bulles, Chiny, Belgium, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Durness, Thurso & John o' Groats: Paul Hermans (derivative work: Hogweard), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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