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ROUTE 4

Down Glen Nevis

Start	Glen Nevis lower falls, 300 metres up-valley from Achriabhach (NN 145 683)
Finish	Fort William station (NN 105 741)
Distance	11.5km/7 miles
Total ascent	Nil
Time	3hr
Terrain	Small paths
Max altitude	Upper fall 55m
Transport	Stagecoach bus 41 serves the youth hostel: there have been buses to the Lower Falls – check with Tourist Information

The Glen Nevis road hardly intrudes on this at all, and enables an outward journey on the Glen Nevis bus – that’s unless you make it the second half of the walk from Corrour station (Route 5) or a backpack trek from Kinlochleven, Rannoch, or elsewhere.

Start by turning right out of the car park, to cross two bridges, under the second of which are the Lower Falls. Beware of inaudible traffic coming round the blind bends. A stile on the left is for canoeists and photographers – pass it to a track just beyond. Follow this past Polldubh cottages, to find a faint path. After 400 metres along the foot of the hill slope, the path joins the river; then follows it downstream, past the square wooded enclosure of an old burial ground. After crossing the two branches of the Red Burn (no footbridges), you reach a long bridge on the left that would lead to the youth hostel.

Keep going on a good path still to right of the stream. Pass another bridge into the car park at Nevis Visitor Centre. After another 400 metres the path is about to join the Achintee Road.

To avoid this, fork left on a path under trees, still alongside the river, to join the road further down. After 200 metres cross a green footbridge over the River Nevis, then turn right to join the pavement of the Glen Nevis road. At the roundabout by the Nevis Bank Hotel, turn left to the town centre.

Meal an t-Suidhe, Burial Ground east of River Nevis, Ben Nevis