Glen Roy National Nature Reserve

Glen Roy Scottish Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland video of photographs of Glen Roy on a visit to the Scottish Highlands. This Scottish glen is located in the Lochaber area of the Highlands and is a National Nature Reserve and is noted for the geological puzzle of the three roads. The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy are lake terraces that formed along the shorelines of an ancient ice-dammed lake. In the 19th century, the Parallel Roads attracted the attention of many early geologists, including the Reverend William Buckland, James Geikie, Charles Darwin, Charles Babbage, Charles Lyell and Joseph Prestwich. The glen runs north from Glen Spean which takes the main A86 trunk road and the railway of the West Highland Line, both running about a further 14 miles southwest via Spean Bridge to Fort William. The village of Roybridge and Roy Bridge railway station are sited where the River Roy joins the River Spean, and from there a narrow single track road runs north up the glen for almost 10 miles to Brae Roy Lodge.