Glenelg the Guidebook
Place to Eat
This is the local inn with pub and restaurant, with great food. Best to book in advance as it gets quite busy in the summer
months. Also, you can also book-in for full-cooked breakfast in the dining room. There are takeaway breakfasts from 10am-12pm, and takeaways for fish and chips in the evenings till 7pm.
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Glenelg Inn
This is the local inn with pub and restaurant, with great food. Best to book in advance as it gets quite busy in the summer
months. Also, you can also book-in for full-cooked breakfast in the dining room. There are takeaway breakfasts from 10am-12pm, and takeaways for fish and chips in the evenings till 7pm.
Unique Ventures
Travel to Skye the old-fashioned way! The last of its kind, the
Glenelg-Skye Ferry is the last manually-operated turntable ferry in the world. A Scottish invention and once common throughout
the country, the turntable is turned by hand. The Ferry runs from Easter till October, 10am till 6pm (or 7pm in June, July, August), seven days a week. The ferry runs every 20-minutes or as required. A car with up to 4 passengers is £15.00; £25.00 for a return; and a six-journey ticket book is £40.00. At the end of the day, try and return to the slipway half an hour early just in case it’s already left the Skye side.
On the Glenelg side, there is the Shore Station, the
purpose-built headquarters for the Ferry. It is dedicated to my father, who was one of the people who saved the ferry from closing down, and who also founded the Green House. A café operates out of the Shore Station during the summer months. You can find fresh coffee, baked goods, and ferry merchandise!
Glenelg Isle of Skye Ferry Terminal
Travel to Skye the old-fashioned way! The last of its kind, the
Glenelg-Skye Ferry is the last manually-operated turntable ferry in the world. A Scottish invention and once common throughout
the country, the turntable is turned by hand. The Ferry runs from Easter till October, 10am till 6pm (or 7pm in June, July, August), seven days a week. The ferry runs every 20-minutes or as required. A car with up to 4 passengers is £15.00; £25.00 for a return; and a six-journey ticket book is £40.00. At the end of the day, try and return to the slipway half an hour early just in case it’s already left the Skye side.
On the Glenelg side, there is the Shore Station, the
purpose-built headquarters for the Ferry. It is dedicated to my father, who was one of the people who saved the ferry from closing down, and who also founded the Green House. A café operates out of the Shore Station during the summer months. You can find fresh coffee, baked goods, and ferry merchandise!
Soil Association certified organic beers brewed using local spring
water. Located in Corrary beside the ‘second broch’: Dun Troddan. The tap room is lovely and open during the lighter months of the year. Dun Brewing beers are also served at the Glenelg Inn and Kintail Lodge Hotel
and are available to buy at the Glenelg village shop and to order from Highland Wholefoods and The Misty Bottle.
Dun Brewing (The Dun Inn)
Soil Association certified organic beers brewed using local spring
water. Located in Corrary beside the ‘second broch’: Dun Troddan. The tap room is lovely and open during the lighter months of the year. Dun Brewing beers are also served at the Glenelg Inn and Kintail Lodge Hotel
and are available to buy at the Glenelg village shop and to order from Highland Wholefoods and The Misty Bottle.
If you wish to take home a very special Glenelg memento, make it a Highland Kilt Cushion from Erica MacDonald. Erica creates and sells kilt tartan and tweed cushions from her workshop on the main street. She also accepts commissions. The yellow tweed cushions in the Green House kitchen were made by Erica.
Highland Kilt Cushions
3 Blantyre TerraceIf you wish to take home a very special Glenelg memento, make it a Highland Kilt Cushion from Erica MacDonald. Erica creates and sells kilt tartan and tweed cushions from her workshop on the main street. She also accepts commissions. The yellow tweed cushions in the Green House kitchen were made by Erica.
These boat tours are a fantastic way to explore the unique coastline of the west coast, and an opportunity to see whales and dolphins!
AquaXplore
These boat tours are a fantastic way to explore the unique coastline of the west coast, and an opportunity to see whales and dolphins!
Special Places
The brochs are ancient constructions dating back to the iron age. Who built them, and their function is a mystery. Dun Telve broch and its neighbour, Dun Troddan, are some of the best preserved brochs in Scotland. The reason why they are only semi-circular is because the English army dismantled them in order to build the barracks and monitor the crossing to Skye during the Jacobite rebellion.
Dun Telve Broch Tower
The brochs are ancient constructions dating back to the iron age. Who built them, and their function is a mystery. Dun Telve broch and its neighbour, Dun Troddan, are some of the best preserved brochs in Scotland. The reason why they are only semi-circular is because the English army dismantled them in order to build the barracks and monitor the crossing to Skye during the Jacobite rebellion.
At Dun Troddan, there is an organic brewery, Dun Brewing, with tap room, the Dun Inn. On foot, if you keep following the road that brought you to the brochs, you can follow a track all the way round into Moyle. See the Glean Beag to Suardalan bothy walks on Walk Highlands for more details.
Dun Troddan Broch Tower
At Dun Troddan, there is an organic brewery, Dun Brewing, with tap room, the Dun Inn. On foot, if you keep following the road that brought you to the brochs, you can follow a track all the way round into Moyle. See the Glean Beag to Suardalan bothy walks on Walk Highlands for more details.
Beinn Sgritheall is the highest hill in the area, a munro of 974 metres. See Walk Highlands for the best walking routes.
Beinn Sgritheall
Beinn Sgritheall is the highest hill in the area, a munro of 974 metres. See Walk Highlands for the best walking routes.
Further Afield
A recommendation for a good thing to do on Skye which my family think is very special is Loch Coruisk. To get there, drive to Elgol and then take a foot passenger ferry across (there are two foot passenger ferry operators, Misty Isle Boat Trips and the Bella Jane). Also in Elgol is a cave where Bonnie Prince Charlie is said to have hid, you can see the route description on Walk Highlands.
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Loch Coruisk
A recommendation for a good thing to do on Skye which my family think is very special is Loch Coruisk. To get there, drive to Elgol and then take a foot passenger ferry across (there are two foot passenger ferry operators, Misty Isle Boat Trips and the Bella Jane). Also in Elgol is a cave where Bonnie Prince Charlie is said to have hid, you can see the route description on Walk Highlands.
While it can get quite busy in the summer months, but there is something eerily beautiful about this remote outpost – it’s the most westerly point on Skye, and on a clear day you can see the Outer Hebrides.
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Neist Point Lighthouse
While it can get quite busy in the summer months, but there is something eerily beautiful about this remote outpost – it’s the most westerly point on Skye, and on a clear day you can see the Outer Hebrides.
Sumptuous and cosy at the same time, Kinloch Lodge is one of my favourite places ever. The most delicious food, followed by coffee and tablet in front of a roaring fire.
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Kinloch Lodge
A851Sumptuous and cosy at the same time, Kinloch Lodge is one of my favourite places ever. The most delicious food, followed by coffee and tablet in front of a roaring fire.
Useful
Glenelg Shop
3 KirktonAll the basics plus occasional veg from the area’s three organic farms (in season)!
Inverinate Service Station
The nearest petrol station.