Tourist Guide to Fort William

In Fort William
Tourist Information and Interpretive Centre (Open all year) | West Highland Museum | steam train trips on West Highland line (June - September) | Lochaber leisure Centre with swimming pool, gyms, squash courts and climbing walls | Marcos sports centre with ten pin bowling, children's play area and snooker | cinemas | cruises to Seal Island | craft exhibition | passenger ferry across Loch Linnhe to Trislaig | Scottish Shows | putting | bowling | cycle hire | car hire | remains of old fort | tennis courts | pedestrianised town centre shopping | coach tours.

Within 10 minutes
Glen Nevis with spectacular views and forest walks | Ionad Niheis (Glen Nevis) visitor centre | end or start of West Highland Way long distance footpath | start of Ben Nevis mountain track | water falls - Glen Nevis | Old Inverlochy Castle | aluminium factory tours (summer only) | Ben Nevis whisky distillery visitor centre | Fort William golf course (18 hole) | Leanachan Forest mountain bike trails | Nevis Range Ski Centre (summer cable car) | garden centre and tea room | Caledonian Canal and Neptune's Staircase (lock system) - Banavie | start or end of Great Glen cycle route | treasures of the earth - visitor attraction | pony trekking | walking and mountaineering | mountain guides and instructors.

Within 30 minutes
Tor Castle | Glenfinnan with its Monument, visitor centre - National Trust for Scotland, railway viaduct and station museum | Spean Bridge golf course (9 hole) | nursery and garden - Spean Bridge | Commando Memorial and museum - Spean Bridge | Spean Bridge tourist information centre (open Easter - October) | Highbridge and Monument - by Spean Bridge | Clan Cameron - Achnacarry | Dark Mile - by Achnacarrie | forest walks | Corran car ferry across Loch Linnhe | Confectionery factory visitor centre and Scottish speciality food shop | Ballachullish Tourist Information and Interpretive Centre (open Easter - October) | swimming pool and leisure club - Ballachulish | Highland Mysteryworld visitor attraction - Ballachulish | Glencoe and north Lorne Folk Museum | Glencoe Visitor Centre - National Trust for Scotland | monument to Glencoe Massacre - Glencoe village | Craft and Coffee shop.

Within 1 hour
Animal Fibre Farm and Locally Spun Knitwear Workshop - Strontian | Strontian Tourist information Centre - open Easter - October | Strontian lead mines - Industrial Heritage | Traigh Golf Course - by Arisaig (9 Hole) | Arisaig village | Whale/Dolphin/Wildlife watching boat trips and cruises to the Small Isles from Arisaig | Invergarry Castle | Parallel Roads - Glenroy (geological feature) | Well of the Seven Heads - North Laggan | watersports on Loch Oich | Fort Augustus and Abbey | Loch Ness | Kinlochleven walking centre | Aluminium Story Visitor Centre - Kinlochleven | Glencoe Ski Centre (Summer Chairlift) and Scottish Museum of Mountaineering and Skiing | mountaineering | forest walks | Glen Etive | Kinlochlaich house Garden Plant Centre | Port Appin village | Castle Stalker - Appin | Kiel Church.

Within 1.5 hours
Villages of Salen and Acharacle | Loch Shiel - Fishing and boat hire | The Illegal Moidart Museum, by Acharacle | Castle Tioram - by Arracharcle | Ardtoe beaches | singing sands - Kentra | Geln More Natural History Centre with living building exhibition | Seven Men of Moidart | Glenuig - spectacular views | Loch Morar - Britain's deepest fresh water loch | Silver Sands of morar | Mallaig Marine World | Malaig Tourist Information Centre (OpenEaster-October) | Mallaiig swimming pool and leisure centre | Malaig Heritage Centre | fish factory and smokery - Mallaig | Cruises to the Small Isles, Inverie, Loch Ness and Kyle of Lochalsh from Mallaig | car ferries to the Isle of Skye and Outer Hebrides | Loch Ness Monster Exhibitions - Drumnadrochit | Urquhart Castle - Loch Ness | Ardtornish House and Gardens - by Lochaline | Kinlochaline Castle - Lochaline | Lochaline - Fishnish (Mull) car ferry | Oban.

Within 2 hours
Kilchoan Tourist Information Centre (Open Easter - October) | Kilchoan - Tobermory (Isle of Mull) car ferry | Mingary Castle - Kilchoan | Kilchoan | Ardnamurchan Point and lighthouse - most westerly point on British mainland | Inverness | Kyle of Lochalsh and Isle of Skye | Eileandonan Castle - Dornie | Clan MacPherson Museum and Waters - Newtonmore | Highland Wildlife Park - Kincraig | Aviemore | Glenelg and Kylerhea ferry to Isle of Skye