Loch Ness Highland Resort

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Touring area
In an area of outstanding natural beauty
Playground
Park location

  • Scenic Highlands site by the shores of Loch Ness
  • A 25-minute drive from Urquhart Castle and 55 minutes from Inverness
  • Restaurant and shop on site; watersports and archery nearby
If you fancy spending some of your holiday trying to spot Nessie from lakeshores, and some taking in the scenic Scottish Highlands, take a look at Loch Ness Highland Resort, a family-friendly site in the village of Fort Augustus. Just five minutes’ walk (less than half a mile) from the shores of the famed Loch Ness, there are no prizes for guessing what the biggest draw is around these parts. The site’s also about five minutes from boat cruises on the loch, and from the Caledonian Canal (which runs from Inverness to the west coast at Fort William) and the 79-mile Great Glen Way that largely follows its route. For those in need of rather more activity, the site team can recommend local activities such as whitewater rafting, kayaking, gorge walking, river rafting, rock climbing, abseiling and archery, so staying busy is a cinch. The site itself also spreads across 40 acres of countryside, so kids (and excitable grownups) will also have plenty of space to run about in. All this could possibly be hungry work so it's handy that there's a bar-restaurant right on site to sort meals, and a handful of local eateries in the pretty Fort Augustus. After making sure everyone is fed, spend the long evenings during high season keeping eyes wide open to spy out eagles, ospreys, red stags, pine martens and red squirrels.

Site type

Motorhome pitches 30
Lodges, cabins, pods or huts 27
Touring caravan pitches 30
Open now
Opens 1 March

Tourist board rating

Please note
  • Under 18s must be accompanied by their parents or legal guardians.
  • Single-sex bookings of 6 or more people (couples and immediate family members excepted) are not permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • No hen/stag parties permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • Commercial vehicles (vehicles used for work-related purposes, carrying goods or fare-paying passengers) and sign-written vehicles are not permitted on site.

Languages spoken

English

Open from Sat, 1 Mar to

Pitch types & availability

Reviews

53%

would recommend this site to a friend

48%

would stay here again

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Only showing reviews for the last 30 months.

Beautiful huge resort. Would love to visit again. Needs some work.

Overall 7/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 1
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 9
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 8
Wifi No rating
Hannah S. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: The enormous, spacious campsite. It looked very fancy as we pulled in which in comparison to the place we had the misfortune of staying the previous night- let’s say we were over the moon!

Very lovely site, staff and views! The pitch was spacious. We could see you are working on your site as a whole and it seems new. Will be great when all the new trees have matured etc.

Disliked: The fact there is no cut through to walk out of the camping area to get to the front of the site or the village. I had to walk all the way around and I’m disabled, the gravel is hard to walk on and it’s a long way round! Please make some exits in the fences to make it easier!

The loos and showers are lovely and new, however you need twice as many because the field wasn’t even half full and we still had to queue for facilities. The one washing up station is totally inadequate.

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Nice location, great staff, site needs to be improved to justify price

Overall 6/10
Location 10
Value for money 4
Accommodation 4
Facilities / Activities 1
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 1
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 1
Christine S. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Very friendly and helpful staff. Clean showers and toilets. Large pitches.
The location is excellent with near vicinity to the village and canal locks. It's a beautiful area of Scotland. Plenty of pubs and restaurants.

Disliked: Whilst the toilet block was clean and quite new it was small and the facilities are mixed. The cubicles are like portaloos in a wooden shed. It is a new site and has loads of potential but needs some work.
No tv reception or WiFi. This could be a plus as we played dominos and talked to each other. I won most of the games and my husband gave up and went to bed.
We could not find a supermarket.
The advertised bar and restaurant seven days a week was shut Monday and Tuesday.

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Glorious location

Overall 7/10
Location 10
Value for money 5
Accommodation 5
Facilities / Activities 5
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Sarah B. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Fantastic views
5 mins walk to Loch Ness shore
Very clean
Receptionist was lovely
Large pitch
Lots of shrubbery has been planted that will soften the site and make it prettier when it all grows

Disliked: Toilet/shower block

Early check out (10am) and late check in made stay £38 for 18 hours so had the van on a car park in town all afternoon. Not sure why the gravel pitch needed 6hrs maintenance

Signs regarding rubbish and picking up dog mess were rude

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Venue beautiful…

Overall 7/10
Location 9
Value for money 5
Accommodation 8
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 8
Child friendliness 9
Cleanliness 9
Wifi 4
Mark S. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Venue beautiful

Disliked: Not enough toilet/showers
Cost more than the other places we stayed
Poor wifi

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Thoroughly recommend -great base to visit Inverness, Fort William etc.

Overall 9/10
Location 10
Value for money 9
Accommodation 9
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 9
Child friendliness 9
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 1
David M. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Peace and quiet, proximity to village facilities (which were surprisingly varied and of great quality) and well-maintained site.

Disliked: Not a complaint, really - we were unlucky in that the chef for the on-site restaurant was ill during our stay, so no service. Also no wi-fi, although neither detracted from our stay.

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Great site in an outstanding area with good access.

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 9
Accommodation No rating
Facilities / Activities 5
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 7
Cleanliness 10
Wifi No rating
Rob U. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Location. Play park and Resteraunt

Disliked: New Site understandably but only 4 cubical toileta abd 3 cubicle showers between 25 pitches.

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Quiet site clean facilities

Overall 5/10
Location 5
Value for money 5
Accommodation 5
Facilities / Activities 5
Customer service 4
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 5
Wifi 1
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Nice and flat pitch with electric

Disliked: Looks a new setup with newly planted areas. Could do with grass between pitches instead of all gravel. Quite far from toilet block

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Nice holiday park great location

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 9
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi No rating
Ray C. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Big pitches very new very clean great location near village and loch ness cruises
On site bar and restaurant

Disliked: Nothing to dislike As its new was still being developed could do with a few more showers/toilets be very busy if all pitches are full didnt bother us but 4/5g only no wifi

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Quiet but majorly lacking

Overall 1/10
Location 6
Value for money 2
Accommodation 3
Facilities / Activities 1
Customer service 4
Child friendliness 1
Cleanliness 2
Wifi 1
Davina W. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Peacfull and spacious pitch

Disliked: Toilet and shower facilities are poor, only 3 toilets and 3 showers which are like portable toilets.
If you want to clean your teeth you need to use the small sink next to the toilet as no basins within the showers.
Nothing to dry your hands on after the toilet.
There are also no pot washing facilities.
Also this site is not wheelchair or mobility scooter accessible as the ground is all uneven gravel.
For the price we have paid it’s poor compared to the others we have stayed at this week.
If I had known how poor the site was I would have chosen somewhere else.

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So much improved and so welcoming and clean and tidy.

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 8
Facilities / Activities 9
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi No rating
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional gravel and hardstanding touring pitch

Liked: Warm welcome especially from Izzy at the restaurant when we had a great meal of fish and chips when we arrived after a long drive,(and a lovely pint of lager). Steve who was working on the roof of the new toilet block was so friendly and welcoming.
The site is in a different league to the last time we arrived and is so much improved.
Loads of space between pitches and very nice shower block.

Disliked: too much gravel hardstanding which was a pain as it was dry and dusty, but thats it.

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Features

Leisure on site

Bar or club house Cycle hire Evening entertainment Fishing Fitness centre Games room Indoor swimming pool Kids' club On-site restaurant/cafe Outdoor swimming pool Play area TV room Take away Tennis Watersports

Amenities on site

Bath available Car parking by pitch/unit Composting toilet Dog park Drying room Food shop Free wifi Ice pack freezing Internet access Launderette Parent & baby washroom Pick-up from public transport Portable toilet Pub toilets Public telephone Shower available Toilet block Washing-up area Wifi

Groups welcome

D. of E. welcome Family friendly Motorcycle friendly Single-sex groups welcome Student groups welcome

Rules

Barbecue provided Barbecues allowed Campfires allowed Commercial vehicles allowed Dogs allowed Dogs allowed all year

Themes

Budget/backpacker Forest Lake and/or mountain Peaceful Spectacular scenery Walkers' paradise Wildlife haven

Utilities

Charging facilities Chemical disposal Electric car charging point(s) Gas cylinders available Recycling available Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby Dog walk nearby Public transport nearby Shop nearby

Type

Large (51-200 pitches)

Nearby leisure

Canoeing/kayaking nearby Climbing nearby Cycle hire nearby Cycling nearby Fishing nearby Golf nearby Horse riding nearby Mountain biking nearby Restaurant nearby Sailing nearby Watersports nearby

Location

Loch Ness Highland Resort

Glendoe Road

Fort Augustus

Highlands and Islands

Scotland

PH32 4BG

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London BST (GMT+01:00)

GPS

57.14226°N
-4.68313°W

Nearest transport

Coach
8 mi Loch Ness Youth Hostel
15.4 mi Post Office
29 mi Bus Station
Rail
17.9 mi Tulloch Rail Station
18.5 mi Roy Bridge Rail Station
19.6 mi Spean Bridge Rail Station
Ferry
0.2 mi Fort Augustus Ferry Landing
22.6 mi Inverness Loch Ness Ferry Landing
27.4 mi Camusnagaul Ferry Landing

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Local attractions

Explores of Loch Ness are an absolute must on any stay here. Make immediate tracks from base to the spectacularly placed Urquhart Castle (25 minutes’ drive), then continue onwards to the Loch Ness Centre and Exhibition (30 minutes) to learn about 500 million years of the lake’s history and to find out where all those Nessie stories started. Travel the length of Loch Ness to reach Inverness (55 minutes), where there are botanic gardens to wander, dolphin-spotting tours to take, a cathedral and castle to visit, museums and arts centres to traipse through, and plenty of shopping to be had. Just outside the city, a stop at Culloden (an hour and five minutes) comes highly recommended to learn more about the battle that ended the Jacobite uprising of the 18th century. Heading south instead, a 50-minute drive will land guests in Fort William, the starting point of hikes up Ben Nevis, the UK’s highest mountain, as well as the home of the Ben Nevis Distillery and the West Highland Museum. Further afield, it’s a little over an hour to the edge of Cairngorms National Park, explores of which should include stops at Dalwhinnie Distillery, the Highland Folk Museum, RZSS Highland Wildlife Park and Landmark Forest Adventure Park, among lots else.

Must see

Caledonian Canal Heritage Centre 0.2 mi

Urquhart Castle 14.3 mi

The Official Loch Ness Monster Exhibition 15.5 mi

Nevis Range Cable Cars 25.6 mi

Ben Nevis Distillery 25.8 mi

Cycle routes

Find local routes on the National Cycle Network - over 12,000 miles of cycling routes.

Other

Caledonian Canal: Fort Augustus - Kytra Lock 0.3 mi

Fort Augustus to Glenmoriston 0.5 mi

Jenkins Park Circuit, Fort Augustus 0.5 mi

River Oich Walk: Fort Augustus 0.8 mi

Torr Dhuin Forest Walk 2 mi

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Offers

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Frequently asked questions

  • Does Loch Ness Highland Resort have a swimming pool? No View all features
  • Is Loch Ness Highland Resort dog friendly? Yes View all features
  • What attractions are near Loch Ness Highland Resort? Explores of Loch Ness are an absolute must on any stay here. Make immediate tracks from base to the spectacularly placed Urquhart Castle (25 minutes’ drive), then continue onwards to the Loch … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of Loch Ness Highland Resort?
    Camping and touring
    Arrive:  4 p.m. –  8 p.m.
    Depart by:  10 a.m.
    On-site accommodation
    Arrive:  4 p.m. –  8 p.m.
    Depart by:  10 a.m.
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  • How much does it cost to stay at Loch Ness Highland Resort? From £20 (for 1 night, 6 people) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.