📜 One of Scotland’s most spectacular waterfalls, a hidden treasure cascading past towering trees.
🔍 Features two main walking trails and a heart-stopping viewpoint over the falls.
🏞️ Experience a magnificent waterfall plunging beneath towering Douglas firs.
🚶♀️ Explore two distinct walking trails: the short Plodda Falls Trail or the longer Tweedmouth Trail.
🌳 Wander through majestic Douglas firs and larch planted by Lord Tweedmouth.
🧺 Enjoy a picnic in a scenic natural setting.
🅿️ Benefit from free parking at the site.
📵 No mobile phone reception in the glen, so network-reliant maps won't work.
⚠️ Contains areas of open water; follow water safety advice.
🚧 Forest road repairs expected during July and August 2025, potentially causing short delays.
🚶♀️ Trails include uneven sections, narrow paths, steep slopes, stone steps, and exposed tree roots.
📍 Located 5 miles (8 km) beyond the tiny village of Tomich, via a narrow road and forest track.
🚗 From Inverness/Fort William: Follow A82 along Loch Ness to Drumnadrochit, then A831 towards Canaich (Cannich). Turn left onto a minor road signposted for Tomich before Cannich village. Continue through Tomich for about 6¼ miles (10 km) onto a forest track.
🗺️ Car park at grid reference NH 279 238. For SatNav, use IV4 7LY and continue for another 1¾ mile (2.8 km) to the car park.
🚌 Public transport: Buses run from Inverness to Tomich and Cannich (check Traveline Scotland for details).
🆓 Free parking available in designated areas.
🚫 Park with care and consideration, do not block entrances or gates.
☕ The Coach House Café in Tomich offers snacks.
🛒 Places to eat and a shop are available in Cannich.
❌ No cafés or shops directly in Glen Affric.
🚶♀️ Plodda Falls Trail: Approximately ½ mile (1.0 km), takes about ½ hour. Leads to a viewpoint right over the top of the Falls. Path is mostly firm gravel but includes uneven, narrow, grassy, muddy sections, steep slopes, stone steps, and exposed tree roots.
🌲 Tweedmouth Trail: Approximately 1 ½ miles (2.4 km), takes about 1 hour. Winds through majestic Douglas firs and larch, follows the river to the bottom of the falls, then ascends to the top viewpoint. Paths are uneven gravel and earth, with narrow, rocky sections, several steep slopes, sets of stone steps, potentially muddy sections, and exposed tree roots.
🌳 Forestry and Land Scotland.