Local Area and Activities
Your ideal base for a tranquil Highland holiday
- Safe for Children – enclosed and peaceful but plenty to look at, play with and do.
- Spacious Rooms – comfortable to relax in with great lounges and outside areas and gardens (free onsite parking too).
- Shops, Restaurants and Services -Drumnadrochit is ideal for getting the things you need, food and gifts and eating out (the Loch Ness Inn is a particular favourite of our guests).
- Sail on the Loch – There are passenger launches sailing the length of Loch Ness which can be joined at different piers along the loch.
- The Monster! – There are two visitor centres at Drumnadrochit devoted to the question is there or is there not a Loch Ness Monster.
- Visitor Centres, Castles – All along Loch Ness from Fort Augustus to Inverness there are Visitor Centres and other places of historical interest and castles including our local Castle Urquart (see picture across in gallery). Drumnadrochit has a Visit Scotland tourist shop.
- Short Walks – Beautiful walks start right from your lodge but at Abriacan there is are easy flat and short walks capable of using wheelchairs with historical milestones and information and a bird watching hide.
- The Long Walk – the Great Glen Way goes past Torcroft Lodges – 73 miles crossing the country from Fort William on Loch Linnhe in the West to Inverness on the Moray Firth in the East.
- More Highland Travel – From Torcroft Lodges you can plan many day trips to a wide range of exciting and interesting Scottish touring destinations from Skye to the North West Coast, Sutherland, Inverness and the Moray Firth where the bottlenose dolphins can be watched from the shore! Whisky Distilleries and many shops and tourist locations and activities.
