Arisaig

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On the "Road to the Isles" between Fort William and Mallaig, just south of the Sands of Morar and the Traigh Golf Course. Arisaig is a beautiful and sheltered mooring for yachts and has a passenger ferry service to the Small Isles of Muck, Rum, Eigg and Canna.

Nearby Arisaig House is now a private house but until fairly recently was a fine hotel, the grounds of which reputedly had flowering Rhododendrons for every month of the year. During the Second World War the house was a training centre for SOE personnel.

Many parts of this area of Lochaber are associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie and near to here, on the coast, there is a cave where he hid for a short while after the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

The village has an hotel, restaurant and shop in addition to a boat repair and chandlery service.