📌 Altandhu, Highland
★★★
In a landscape as special as Coigach, every bend in the single-track road seems to reveal a new, wondrous panorama. Of all these, perhaps the very best (roadside) viewpoints are from the strip of tarmac running across the Rubha Mòr promontory between Achnahaird Bay and Altandhu. From a cairn just above the road near its highest point, there’s a stunning outlook over the Summer Isles archipelago, laid out like an armada across the bay. A similar (but unsignposted) viewpoint slightly further north boasts an equally fine vista of the monolithic Assynt hills.
🌍 Location
📌 Main, southern viewpoint is signposted off a minor road 1 mi north of Altandhu
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NB 985133
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 58.062784,-5.417721
❌ No public transport within 1 mi
🚗 Southern viewpoint: layby at 🧭 NB 985133 / 🛰️ 58.062637,-5.416879. Northern viewpoint: layby 300m further northeast. Don’t block passing places.
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
