📌 Oban, Argyll & Bute
★★★
On a clear evening as the sun sets on Oban Bay, time seems to stand still at McCaig’s Tower. This circular folly is the busier of two exquisite vantage points for Oban (the other being Pulpit Hill), with daytime ferries plying to and fro between the harbour and the maze of islands making up the western seaboard. The tower itself was commissioned by a wealthy banker in 1897, built to commemorate his family and give work to local stonemasons. In the end it was never completed, leaving an empty shell with no real purpose except as a prominent component of Oban’s skyline, well worth the steep uphill climb from the centre of town. Request to the town council: please can you trim the branches which are beginning to encroach on the view?
🌍 Location
📌 Duncraggan Road, 10-min uphill walk (or short drive) northeast of Oban town centre
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NM 861302
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 56.415629,-5.469228
🚆🚢🚌 Oban
🚗 Car park
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
