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Free entry for National Trust members
This place is cared for by the National Trust for Scotland, a separate charity. Under the INTO reciprocal visiting arrangement, National Trust members from England, Wales and Northern Ireland get free standard entry. Show your current membership card at admissions.
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Free for everyone.
Forestry and Land Scotland car park · £3 all day. Not a Trust car park, so membership does not cover it.
The nearest road end is the Forestry and Land Scotland car park at the end of the Glen Affric road beyond Cannich, £3 all day by card, with picnic benches and summer toilets. It is not a Trust car park, so members pay. From there West Affric is several hours' walk or mountain bike west along Loch Affric. Walking routes also start from Morvich and from Cluanie on the A87, the latter boggy and indistinct.
West Affric is the wild upland at the western end of Glen Affric, bought by the National Trust for Scotland in 1993 and several hours' walk from the nearest road: peat bog, moorland and bare crags on the border with Kintail, threaded by the old drove road from Skye to Dingwall that is now the Affric Kintail Way. Trees for Life and the Trust are bringing back the native woodland, and birch and rowan are spreading; look for 4,000-year-old Scots pine stumps in the peat, black grouse, ptarmigan, mountain hares and golden eagles. There are no facilities; the Alltbeithe youth hostel and Camban bothy are the only shelter. Dogs are welcome on the estate. Reviewers of the road-end car park say its waymarked river and viewpoint trails are a fine short taste, but the estate proper is a serious day on foot or by bike. Tips from visitors: the main paths cross burns that become impassable after heavy rain, midges and ticks peak in July and August, and there is no phone signal.
Alltbeithe (Glen Affric) youth hostel opens late April to September and must be booked; Camban bothy is open all year. Rangers run a three-day guided walk of the West Affric Munros.
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44-mile long-distance route from Drumnadrochit on Loch Ness to Morvich in Kintail, crossing West Affric; very remote, with a youth hostel 10 miles in from Kintail.
