Walk: Plodda Falls – through fir to the fall

📌 Tomich, Highland
★★★★

Glen Affric and its neighbouring valleys don’t do anything on a small scale, but this 50-metre waterfall is the region’s tallest, beating nearby Guisachan waterfall in both power and height. It’s almost as if the waterfall and the surrounding Douglas Fir trees (planted by Lord Gladstone in the 1880s) are competing in a height contest with each other – and the winner is the lucky walker. This loop leaves the waterfall as a final climax, approached from the base with the top of the drop high above. In fact you’ll be looking up for most of this walk – this forest contains some of Scotland’s tallest trees. Whether that or the potholed approach road will make your neck ache more is open to debate.

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish on track 3 mi southwest of Tomich

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NH 280238

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 57.272496,-4.854450

❌ No public transport within 1 mi

🚗 Car park (charge) accessed by 2 mi of unsurfaced track – not advised for vehicles with low ground clearance

📝 Key info

▶ 3 km / 2 mi | ▲ 90 m | ⌛ 1 hr

Features: 🌲 Douglas Firs; 🌊 Plodda Falls ★★★★★

⬤ Moderate | Earthy narrow footpaths and forest tracks. Steep ascent from base to top of falls.

➡️ Anticlockwise circuit. Start – Abhainn Deabhag near Plodda Lodge – Plodda Falls – start. Route waymarked in green & on map 🔗 here (Tweedmouth Trail)

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Pine marten spotted from the approach road to the falls, scampering along the track in front.

Weather: Sunshine and scattered clouds, temperature creeping into low teens.

May 2015

Plodda Falls ★★★★★