A830 road

Road to the Isles is a scenic road in the Scottish Highlands. It is in the Council Area Highland and links the towns of Fort William and Mallaig. It runs largely parallel to the route of the West Highland Railway, operates on the Jacobite Steam Train.

The road is about 70 kilometers long and is dotted with numerous attractions of the Highlands. It begins in the tourist center of Fort William. After a few kilometers, the traveler reaches called in BANAVIE the staircase locks of the Caledonian Canal, Neptune 's Staircase. Then the road turns west and runs along the north shore of Loch Eil. A few kilometers further west you meet the Glenfinnan Monument at Loch Shiel and the Glenfinnan Viaduct known from several movies. Then the road runs parallel to the picturesque Loch Hasten to achieve little later the Scottish west coast, from where open some spectacular views of the islands of Rum and Eigg the. The route would then north along that coast sections, which were used as locations for beach shots in the film Local Hero. Is given to the silvery stretch of beach at Morar, which is also known as Silver Sands of Morar as particularly worth seeing. A few kilometers further north the route ends at the ferry port of Mallaig.

The route of the Road to the Isles largely corresponds to the course of the A830. Travelers can this good road but leave in Arisaig and switch to the parallel B8008 which runs much closer to the coast. Both roads meet at Morar together again.