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The UK's oldest outdoor access group, we work to protect and develop access to the Scottish countryside for all. We are the authors of #ScottishHillTracks and home to the #HeritagePaths Project. For more about us, check out our https://linktr.ee/scotways !
We’ve recently been notified that the footbridge at Inver Cottage near Achnasheen, on #ScottishHillTracks route 282, has been damaged by recent flooding and is currently closed.
An alternative route can be found here:
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📷© John Allen, Geograph
The majority of our 4000 signs across Scotland are about 2 metres high. But in some places, low-level signs do the job just as well, like this one near Derry Lodge in the Cairngorms.
#FingerpostFriday #ShortKings
The Spout of Ballochleam is our Heritage Path of the Month for March 2026!
Read more here and through the link in our bio:
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📷Paula Watson
#HillTrackTuesday
Staff from scotways and ramblers with a table at Scottish Labour conference
As part of our engagement with all parties in the run up to the election in May, we are here with @scotways.com at #ScotLab26. If you are here, come and tell us your favourite walk and talk to us about why Scotland needs a Scottish Path Fund.
@ainmean-aite.bsky.social
We’re very grateful to volunteer Andrew, who helps with translations, and for the fantastic resources of @Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba.
📷Debbie Ramage
#FingerpostFriday for #SeachdainNaGàidhlig from An t-Eilean Sgitheanach (Isle of Skye).
We normally install bilingual signs in the north and west Highlands and Argyll, areas where local authorities also usually install bilingual signs.
#ScottishHillTrack route 154 is another very long and rewarding route from Loch Rannoch through the wild heart of Ben Alder Forest to the eastern end of Loch Laggan.
Start: NN 506 576
Finish NN 554 898
Have you walked this route recently? Let us know in the comments 👇️
📷Tim Simons
The Stock Mounth was also known as 'The Foggy Road' among locals in Durris, fog being the Scots word for moss.
Read more about the route and its heritage information here:
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This is your sign to get outside this weekend!
This sign stands at the start of #ScottishHillTrack route 303, Glen Torridon to Bridge of Grudie (Loch Maree), and points along the public footpath to Coire Mhic Nobuil.
Happy #FingerpostFriday!
📹Rachel Taylor
Much of this route is also known as the Old Road to Coignafearn. Read more about this Heritage Path here:
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#ScottishHillTrack route 233 from Kingussie to Coignafearn (Tomatin) by the River Findhorn is a very long route through the rolling hills and long glens of Monadhliath.
📷Adam Ward
#HillTrackTuesday
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📷Tim Simons
Happy #FingerpostFriday!
We’ll be at the Fort William Mountain Film Festival later today at 5 pm. Come say hi, if you’re attending!
Here’s another one of our signs in Lochaber. This sign also stands near the Drove Road to Callert Ferry.
The West Highland Way is arguably one of Scotland’s best-known footpaths and now stands high in the international ranks of long-distance routes.
This photo featured on the front page of our 2016 Summer Newsletter alongside a tribute to Tom.
#ThrowbackThursday #FromTheArchives
This month marks 10 years since the death of Tom Hunter, a ScotWays life member, who came up with the original idea of the West Highland Way and was the author to the book ‘A Guide to the West Highland Way’, first published in 1979.
Its #HillTrackTuesday!
This week we’re highlighting #ScottishHillTrack route 298, Kinloch Damh (Loch Damh to Annat or Shieldaig (Loch Torridon).
Start: NG 850 476
Finish: NG 890 542 or NG 816 542
📷Tim Simons, looking towards Beinn Bhan from the south end of Loch Damh
*We have recently begun a project to overhaul our Heritage Paths resource and will be re-surveying and updating route descriptions in due course.
The Ca na Catanach is a remarkable survivor from an age when the only land routes in the north were the old ‘ways’ created by the passage of travellers on foot or horseback.
Read more about the route and its heritage information here:
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📷 Rod Dalitz
It’s #FingerpostFriday!
We’re heading to the Fort William Mountain Festival next weekend!
This Kinlochleven sign on the West Highland Way points towards Fort William, but it needs some care.
Come say hi at the festival to chat about volunteering opportunities relating to signpost maintenance!
Our Heritage Path of the Month for February is the Old Road from New Cumnock to Dalquhairn.
Read more about the route here:
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📷©Chris Wimbush
Scotways is delighted to be attending Skills for the Hills 2026 on Saturday, 7 March.
Come and say hello at our stall, we’d love to chat!
Find out more about the event here:
www.mountainaid.org.uk/skills-for-t...
📷Iain Dow
Here is what the #Fingerpost looked like before it went missing!
Your support will cover the costs of procuring and installing a new metal signpost, including an end-mounted direction sign and a Heritage Paths interpretation plate.
Find out more here:
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#FingerpostFriday
Our former historic sign has been missing for several years, but we would like to replace it, as this is an important junction partway along the Scottish Hill Tracks route 108, and it also points along the Midmuir Drove Road.
This week’s #HillTrackTuesday comes from Dumfries and Galloway and is #ScottishHillTrack route 79: Clatteringshaws to Dalmellington.
Start: NX 567 771
Finish: NS 480 058
You can also find the full route description here:
scotways.com/heritage-pat...
📷Ross Muir
