EXPLORE

This place is a unique microcosm of all that is best about the Scottish Highlands. The beauty of the landscape and the closeness to nature are unrivaled. This is a place for people who want to experience the remoteness of Scotland. The surrounding area is full of wild life including deer, foxes, otters, badgers, pine martens and many varieties of birds. Walking, cycling, swimming, fishing, boating, canoeing, kayaking, everything is possible from Loch Voil Hostel.

Walking & Hiking

Walking is possible along the loch side and up the surrounding hills including the Munros Ben Mor and Stabinion. There are also adjacent Corbetts.

For keen walkers, the fastest route to the tops behind us is the notorious K2 climb up Ceann na Baintigearna and onto the ridge. An easier way to get up is by the path behind Bealach into Fathan Glen

It is also possible to walk up the forestry tack to remote Coire Odhar. If the weather is wild or misty, stay low and walk along the Loch Doine shore to the Invernenty ruin or even up the Nenty burn and over to Loch Katrine via the watershed.

We are within a day's walk of the West Highland Way (Crianlarich or Inverarnan, Loch Lomond). We are six miles from the Rob Roy Way (Lochearnhead and Strathyre) and ten miles from Beinglas in Glen Falloch.

Rob Roy Country

Loch Lomond & The Trossachs

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Cycling

Loch Voil Hostel is 6 miles away from the National cycle route 7, a 540 miles long cycle path that goes from Sunderland to Inverness.

From here, you are 70 miles away from Glasgow, 15 miles from Killin and Callander and 150 miles from Inverness

National Cycle Route 7

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Water activities

Swimming, boating, fishing, paddle boarding, canoeing, kayaking, possibilities are endless here. in Loch Doine and Loch Voil.

You can borrow the boat for £10 and explore Loch Voil and Loch Doine.

If you stay at our Retreat Hut, a canoe and small jetty are available for you to use.

EAT & DRINK

Monachyle Mhor Hotel with non-resident bar facilities and outside seating is only half a mile away on the other side of the Narrows (it is possible to book a ferry crossing or weather-permitting walk across the ford).

Mhor 84 Motel with reasonably-priced, excellent food and bar with live music is 6 miles away.

History

This part of the West Highlands is steeped in Scottish Highland Gaelic History. Outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor lived here at Monachyle Tuarach before he was married. His wife and family stayed here once he was outlawed. The last MacLarens emigrated from the still abandoned neighbouring croft at Invernenty in 1803.