Walk: Gold star for The Silver Walk

📌 Moidart, Highland
★★★★

On a sunny day after lots of dry weather, this circular ramble incorporating part of The Silver Walk is probably the most spectacular in Moidart. This mesmerising ribbon of Victorian engineering was originally constructed as a coastal estate path, threading an improbable route between the waters of Loch Moidart and sheer cliffs towering above it. The western half is probably the most dramatic, leading to a boggy inland return route which visits a couple of beautiful lochans nestling between low hills. At the start is Castle Tioram – it’s difficult to imagine a more romantically located castle, cradled by the bay of Cùl Doirlinn.

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish at minor road end 3 mi north of Acharacle

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NM 664720

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 56.780874,-5.825184

❌ No public transport within 1 mi

🚗 Car park

📝 Key info

▶ 6 km / 4 mi | ▲ 270 m | ⌛ 3 hr

Features: 🏰 Castle Tioram ★★★; 🥾 The Silver Walk; 💧 Lochan na Fola

⬤ Moderate | Clear paths though rough & boggy in places, especially for some of the inland section. Steady ascent away from coast. Access to Castle Tioram is via a sandy causeway submerged at high tide (though probably not for much longer than an hour or so).

➡️ Clockwise circuit with detour to Castle Tioram: start – Castle Tioram – The Silver Walk along coast to path junction at 🧭 NM 679724 – Lochan na Fola – Bealach Sgairt Dea-uisge – regain shore at 🧭 NM 663714 – start

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Lots of butterflies, dragonflies and grasshoppers; caterpillars dangling from trees, lizard basking on a rock near Lochan na Fola, cuckoo heard.

Weather: 20°C and sunny, though with cooling breeze especially for return route.

June 2016