📌 Village on the Isle of Skye
★★
Arriving on Skye by road, your first decision point will be the roundabout at the end of the Skye Bridge. 99% of traffic goes right towards Broadford, but turn left instead and you’ll enter Kyleakin – a contender for the island’s second most picturesque village after Portree. Now admittedly, Skye’s appeal lies largely with its natural capital, not its manmade features, and the place has a bit of backwater feel caused by the dead-end location (ever since the bridge replaced the important ferry crossing). Nevertheless, this is an appealing place for wandering… around the village green, up to the hilltop war memorial, to the two small jetties, along the beach towards the Skye Bridge, up the tidal An t-Ob inlet, or around the coast to Caisteal Maol. Allow a couple of hours here.
🌍 Location
📌 Skye
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NG 753264
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 57.272654,-5.729310
🚶 Caisteal Maol and the war memorial on An Cnap are worthwhile local wanders, along with views of the Skye Bridge. Our Kyleakin Woods route also starts nearby to the west.
🚌 For a small village there are excellent transport links, with long distance coaches from Glasgow, Inverness & Fort William on the mainland, plus bus services to island villages including Broadford, Portree and Uig. Kyle of Lochalsh railway station is a couple of miles away on the other side of the Skye Bridge.
Explore nearby
<1 mi away
>> Caisteal Maol ★★
>> The Plock ★★★
