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Just watched it again 🙂 The music's great too. Have you ever wondered why it is called Applecross? I have been enchanted by that name, but do not know its origins, I'm sure it has nothing to do with apples! ... The road reminds me of our Desert Road in NZ, which has a similar barren, snow landscape, and drops down to a lake (loch) - Lake Taupo. But that is SH1 - our main highway, so not quite so challenging for drivers. We have 3 mountains (volcanoes), but not like yours .... I think your video of the road to Loch Etive is the best, most beautiful .... that is how I came to your site. 🙂

Wonderful - but you seem to go v fast - is the film sped up or is it just a trick of the camera? And how do drivers know to pull off when someone is coming in the opposite direction, you can't always see ahead, can you? Thanks so much 🙂

Here is a tip for drivers who have never been there, so of course on one track roads use the passing places to allow cars coming towards you to pass, most people understand that, but the passing places should also be used to allow traffic behind you to get passed you if you are slow moving. So for example if you are a campervan and you are labouring up the steep incline with a large queue of traffic crawling behind you, the etiquette is that you should just pull into a passing place for 45 seconds and let the traffic get passed you. Even if you have one car behind you who is looking to get passed, just pull in and let them get passed. Many visitors are either not aware that this is expected or are unwilling....there is no room for any competitiveness or thoughtless driving on these roads, it causes frustration, especially for local drivers. Drive safe and be thoughtful towards your fellow road users.

If u love the rugged landscape and drive you should go to lewis/Harris...or have u already been ?

This doesn’t look like Keswick…

London is the capital of England is this a joke ?

We drove the road to the Isles 4 weeks ago tomorrow...soo much easier to drive to Mallaig (Glenfinnan aside) than it was years ago before the road was upgraded. First time I went in 1989 it was single track most of the way after Lochailort. Thanks for a great video!

Another great wee video such beautiful scenery ...I cannot wait to move further up scotland you're living my dream

I've always loved that bus journey - thanks for sharing it here. It's a shame it only runs twice a day, really - especially if they're using that bus, which I was briefly on 2 years ago, on Mull. It must be hell when it's full of tourists bound for Iona!! I've walked over the old Cregan Railway Bridge, as it also carried a footpath that remained for 20 or more years after the railway closed - then hitched a lift in a police range rover, as far as Ballachulish Bridge! I assume you know that the doctor's surgery in Ballachulish is a conversion of the old railway station? Also, the platform of the one at Ballachulish Ferry can still be seen behind the roundabout at the south end of the bridge - and the one at Kentallen is part of the hotel there?? Another, really scenic bus trip from Fort William is the weekday service to Kilchoan, incidentally. It goes over on the Corrran Ferry, then via Strontian and Acharacle... Connects with the last ferrry to Tobermory, too.

Done that in a motorhome its not that bad

Good value for a scenic trip.

Have travelled this route many times, but not by bus, since the late 70's. It is interesting how the route has evolved to take up, in places, the route and bridge of the railway. Also how a lot of the hillside tree plantations are now gone, the views steadily changing with the years.

Most risky thing is letting your tyres drop off the tarmac: those sharp edges will shred the inner wall 😬

Don’t miss castle arghh from monty Python. Go by car. If Oban is packed pop back to poppies and get a wonderful view of dunusfage marina whilst having lunch.,

Kyle of Lochalsh to Fort Willian (916) please. I don't see being able to afford to hop the pond again and that is one of my favorites.

Hi Liam, I only recently discovered your channel. Thank you for all the impressions. They will help me to bridge the six months until my motorbike trip to Scotland in May 2025 and to take a look at the many beautiful landscapes I will be riding through. Greetings from Germany, Willi

lovely wee drive up to Applecross , i used to deliver garden sheds to the locals in my 18 tonner up the cattle pass road

It's not dangerous at all. It's a lovely scenic road. We did it on a motorbike last year.

Great video best I've seen of that road, drove it before and it's not as bad as its made out I enjoyed the drive

Once met a 6 wheeler fuel truck on the hairpins but I was on a motorcycle so it was OK. Some times there is a star attraction. The waters across from Applecross exceed 1000ft deep and is a sheltered body of water with a defendable entries. This allows the Navy to test its submarines, including opening of missile hatches 'on the quiet' and under water. A test not acceptable in open waters as you do not know who is listening and could start a war. The road back to the north is also worth the trip and can make it a round route back to Kishorn.

Also there is an alternative route for those who may have larger vehicles or less experienced drivers

Another great video and lots of memories for me. I drove it in the same direction on a clearer day and had lunch at the inn :)

Stop being a drama queen nothing wrong with the road

It’s even worse when you’re following a campervan and another campervan comes in the other direction..

I have travelled this road to Glen Etive & it seems a lot longer than I expected it, but that was years & years ago, when I was on it years ago it seemed like just an hour then it came to a complete stop at Loch Etive.

It's a Highland Coo.

Similar in colour to the wild Haggis, which of course are much smaller and harder to spot 😊

That's not Glencoe Village at the start of the video - that's Tigh Phuirt which is between Glencoe and Ballachulish.

Drove this road for the first time a couple days ago it was the best road ever

Amazing place ❤

Brilliant , I’ll be up there in June can’t wait to be back 👍🦌🌲

Another brilliant video, well done again.

It's an incredible place to walk and drive through but I personally prefer to enter after leaving Rannoch moor behind so the sun isn't in my eyes. Even if I'm going up to the east side of the highlands I'll always take the A82 up to Spean Bridge and then cut across via the A86 to the A9 at Kingussie. It's a much prettier run than along past Loch Ness. I'll be doing it all again at the end of October.

You need to clean the screen to stop the camera focusing on the muck! 😊

I recall climbing the Lost Valley as a child: there was a gigantic block up there with ‘the Devil’s footprints’ on it. ❤. Snowpoles still alongside the road. Is there still the full Highland dress Piper at the western end?

It best east to west. The opposite means you are leaving the highlands behind and going home. .

Hit subscribe if you enjoy Scotland and road trips! It’s one of my favourite pastimes :) suggestions welcome 😊

I drove this route a few years ago but in the other direction starting at Pitlochry and taking in Braemar as well. Such a lovely drive. Cheers!

Great video my man!

I’ve driven across much of the western Highlands and the islands and you have to adapt to the style of driving. That’s not a problem provided you can reverse! Mull though is terrible to drive on. The roads are in a very poor state and there is a reasonable volume of traffic at holiday times. I would never take a car there these days unless I absolutely had to.

Beautiful

This summer every day seems like the spring thaw. All the spring gullies in Glencoe are full of rain water most of time.

There’s one very short length of dual carriageway on Mull, near Glenforsa , at about 37.00, but both sections are still single track.

Enjoyed this video enormously..

The road from Carnoch Bridge near Strontian to Lochaline, and many of the roads on Mull were reconstructed in the 1960s. We tried to ensure that drivers could see at least two lay-bys at any one time, and made them a reasonable size. The bridge at 6.09 was designed by a friend and colleague, and a nearby one by me.

Like most highland roads you need to 'read' the road. Passing places are mostly positioned for a purpose other than passing. They indicate a blind bend or brow, ignore and your in the ditch or worse and its a long way to a garage or hospital. If in doubt follow a local or postman. Also if you want to see the scenery get off the road and stop and not in a passing place. In season when there are a lot of tourist coaches they have there own one way system round the isle so they do not approach head to head, most passing places are only one coach long. I have been a number of times over the years as day trips from Fort William. Because of the scale of the place, it is a problem of is it a Buzzard close up, Golden Eagle middle distance or Sea eagle far away? There also a lot of sea creatures, in season, to see, Basking shark in late summer, small whales, otter, etc.. But you can not see everything in a day. So a lot of day trips, A week will give you much, Two weeks will give you most.

Amazing. You actually found it working when you needed it!

This is a useful video for anyone planning to travel this type of road for the first time who isn't sure of the protocol. As a single driver, it's good for me too because I get to see the scenery. Thank you. As I sit here comfortably watching your videos I'll get the shock of my life when I see my car approaching me!

29:04 cracking spot for an overtake

22:38 this section is the best - especially in some cold weather