Path/track on western side of Loch Ness. Info please

[ukdodger]

It's on the West side of Loch Ness alongside the A82. Is it a made up path or dirt & gravel?

[drossall]

You may get more answers if you give people a chance and put "Loch Ness" in your title

[Paulatic]

Is it the Great Glen Way you are referring to?
If so the Google car has been down some of it at least.

[Galloper]

It's a bit of a mixture, you come out of Drumnadrochit on a forestry fire road, then a quiet, narrow tarmac road for a mile or so. After that it's a mix of fire road and track to Invermoriston, don't know what it's like after that.

[ukdodger]

Is it the Great Glen Way you are referring to?
If so the Google car has been down some of it at least.

I dont know to be honest. It comes up on Garmin's Mapsource. On Google you can see both ends are tarmaced but what of the rest. I'm not a fan of gravel but scared of the A82.

[ukdodger]

You may get more answers if you give people a chance and put "Loch Ness" in your title

Thanks teach but I'm happy as it is.

[bogmyrtle]

Have you considered the roads on the east side of the loch?

[ukdodger]

Have you considered the roads on the east side of the loch?

I've been down that side and it's hilly and longer so thought I'd try the other side. Hotel is booked that side now anyway but thanks anyway.

[LollyKat]

The Great Glen Way site has some information, including a Route User's Document that you can download. Briefly, it's cyclable but mostly paths, forest roads and tracks, not much tarmac. How much time have you got?

[andrew_s]

If you use cycle.travel to plan a route along a track (click start, click end, change route by click & drag), you can click on the route and "show photos" to view nearby images from geograph
e.g. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/570278
note the map below the image to show the photo location

There aren't always suitable images available, but it's generally worth while checking.

There's also a streetview option for the on road sections of a route.
It's quite a good route planner too. A slight limitation is that it won't route along a track that's marked as a footpath on OpenStreetMap, even if it's actually a good unsurfaced road (eg here, OSM updated since)

[drossall]

Thanks teach but I'm happy as it is.

Sorry. No offence meant. Just wanted to make sure the local experts saw your thread (and given that I know nothing of that area...)

[ukdodger]

The Great Glen Way site has some information, including a Route User's Document that you can download. Briefly, it's cyclable but mostly paths, forest roads and tracks, not much tarmac. How much time have you got?

I think that's done it LollyKat. I'll stick to the A82. Cheers for the link.

[ukdodger]

Thanks teach but I'm happy as it is.

Sorry. No offence meant. Just wanted to make sure the local experts saw your thread (and given that I know nothing of that area...)

None taken. Sure you meant well. I just dont like my posts being reworded without being asked. I've got the answer I wanted.

[ukdodger]

If you use cycle.travel to plan a route along a track (click start, click end, change route by click & drag), you can click on the route and "show photos" to view nearby images from geograph
e.g. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/570278
note the map below the image to show the photo location

There aren't always suitable images available, but it's generally worth while checking.

There's also a streetview option for the on road sections of a route.
It's quite a good route planner too. A slight limitation is that it won't route along a track that's marked as a footpath on OpenStreetMap, even if it's actually a good unsurfaced road (eg here, OSM updated since)

Excellent thanks. I'll keep the link for future ref.

[drossall]

None taken. Sure you meant well. I just dont like my posts being reworded without being asked. I've got the answer I wanted.

I didn't (couldn't have) reword it. May have been the mods trying to help?