Wester Ross
The mainland north-west — Gairloch, Poolewe, Aultbea, Torridon and the road north toward Ullapool. Single-track coast roads, white sand beaches, sea-lochs and some of Britain's most dramatic mountain country. Gairloch is the main hub for visitors, with hotels, the museum and the Gale Centre.
Wester Ross is the mainland north-west — the run of coast and mountain country between Lochcarron in the south and Ullapool in the north, taking in Gairloch (IV21), Poolewe and Aultbea on Loch Ewe (IV22), the Torridon peninsula, and the National Trust’s Inverewe garden.
Gairloch is the main hub. Around it: the Gairloch Museum (winner of the 2020 Art Fund Museum of the Year shortlist), the Gale Centre community hub at Achtercairn, hotels at Badachro and Charlestown, and the family-run businesses in the village itself. North along the A832, Pool House at Poolewe sits beside Loch Ewe, and the Russian Arctic Convoy Museum at Aultbea tells the story of the WWII convoys mustered in the loch.
Wester Ross is one side of the £25k two-sided Ullapool & Western Isles area map — distributed across the area in tandem with the Ullapool side of the same artefact — and cross-referenced from the Ullapool region page.
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