Loch Ness Highland Resort

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Touring area
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In an area of outstanding natural beauty
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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.

Campground type

Lodges, cabins, pods or huts 27
Camper sites 30
RV sites 30
Open now
Opens March 1

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 bachelor/bachelorette 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.
  • Restaurant opening hours: Monday & Tuesday are closed Wednesday to Sunday – 11am-9pm (no breakfast; lunch served 12pm-3pm and dinner 5pm-8pm)

Languages spoken

English

Open from Sat, Mar 1 to

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Reviews

6.8

Overall rating from 117 Pitchup.com customers

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Customer service
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Child friendliness
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Cleanliness
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Wifi
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Peaceful

63% would recommend this campground to a friend

58% would stay here again

What customers say

This spot has a great location near Fort Augustus and Loch Ness, with super friendly staff. Pitches are spacious and clean, and kids love the new play park. However, some find the facilities lacking and basic, with gravel pitches being uncomfortable. The bar and restaurant got mixed reviews.

Summary AI-generated from Pitchup.com customer reviews

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Arrival date (latest first)

Location was ideal…

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peter R.

Power optional gravel and cement/asphalt travel trailer campsite

Liked Location was ideal

Recommend to friends Visit again

Basic site with lots of potential

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6 out of 10
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Amy W.

Power optional gravel and cement/asphalt travel trailer campsite

Liked Staff were super helpful, really couldn't do enough.
Lovely site but very basic on touring pitches

Disliked Very few toilets and showers. 4 toilets and 2 shower cubicles (plus one as potential disabled unit) to serve 20+ pitches (plus extras without electricity). Pressure in showers dropped drastically when more than 1 person having a shower. Check in time was late - 4pm (late compared to majority of sites) and pitch up says check out is 10am but staff told us it was 11am.
This site has the potential to be amazing but we felt it was overpriced for what it offers at the moment.

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Don’t bother

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Anonymous

Power optional gravel and cement/asphalt travel trailer campsite

Liked Nothing

Disliked If I could give it 0 stars I would. If you want to pay £35 for what is essentially a gravel carpark with a poorly built portashower in then this is the place for you however this is not what you would expect for the price they charge! It’s just a large gravel area that doesn’t look like the pictures. The showers are porta style and poorly built so they don’t drain and you have to stand in other people’s dirt and soup scum not to mention they are tiny! The toilets are of a similar nature. This site just feels like an after thought but with no budget. We turned around and left and stayed elsewhere where. Would not recommend!

Recommend to friends Visit again

Fantastic location, great site and a…

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Martin P.

Power optional gravel and cement/asphalt travel trailer campsite

Liked Fantastic location, great site and a really warm welcome.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Mangelhafte Sanitäranlage, unschöner Stellplatz. Viel zu teuer

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Anonymous

Power optional gravel and cement/asphalt travel trailer campsite

Liked Ruhig

Disliked Unschöner Schotterplatz. Sanitäre Anlagen für den Preis eine Zumutung. Nur 2 Duschen für alle. In diesen keine Ablagemöglighkeit. Utensilien werden nass. Duschvorhang ungenügender Schutz. Viel zu klein. Steckdose geht nur in 1 Kabine. Spiegel gibt es nur in 1 Duschkabine. Kein Föhn, nichts. Winziges Eckwaschbecken nur in den wenigen Toiletten. Sehr ekelig, wenn man sich waschen und Zähne putzen will. Nur 1 Spülbecken für den ganzen Platz, der von anderen als Waschbecken und zum Zähneputzen benutzt wird (mangels an Waschplätzen). Angeblich 5 Sterne. Sicher nicht für den Wohnmobil-Stellplatzbereich.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Over all brilliant area, to travel around from.

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7 out of 10
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Value for money
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Accommodation
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Wifi
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Selina R.

Microlodge (four person, pet friendly)

Liked I liked the microcode, has everything that you need, but needed to buy a plug, as no USB sockets. The views are beautiful 😍

Disliked The bin area often had rubbish round it, I picked it up after second day. I would have liked a bit more character in the bar/]restaurant.

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Spacious…

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3 out of 10
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Pearl O.

Power optional gravel and cement/asphalt travel trailer campsite

Liked Spacious

Disliked Shower and toilets

Recommend to friends Visit again

Good sized pitches,loved the individual toilets…

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Patricia M.

Power optional gravel and cement/asphalt travel trailer campsite

Liked Good sized pitches,loved the individual toilets and showers,had a great restaurant,lovely food,staff lovely and very friendly

Disliked No dog bins

Recommend to friends Visit again

Check in was easy, Site was clean, …

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8 out of 10
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Grant P.

Power optional gravel and cement/asphalt travel trailer campsite

Liked Check in was easy,
Site was clean,
The on site restaurant was great, food was excellent. Izzy looked after us, made sure everybody was happy.
short walk into town
Would stay again.

Disliked The toilet block was small but clean,

Recommend to friends Visit again

Friendly staff with clean facilities

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8 out of 10
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Value for money
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Colin K.

Power optional gravel and cement/asphalt travel trailer campsite

Liked Quiet with lots of room friendly staff

Recommend to friends Visit again

Features

Leisure on park

Bar or club house Cycle hire Evening entertainment Fishing Fitness centre Indoor swimming pool Kids' club On-site restaurant/cafe Outdoor swimming pool Playground Recreation room/arcade TV room Takeout Tennis Watersports

Amenities on park

Bath available Composting toilet Dog park Drying room Free wifi Grocery store Ice pack freezing Internet access Laundromat Parent & baby washroom Payphone Pick-up from public transport Portable toilet Pub toilets Restrooms Shower available Washing-up area Wifi

Groups welcome

Family friendly Motorcycle friendly Scouts welcome Single-sex groups welcome Student groups welcome

Rules

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

Themes

Budget/backpacker Forest Hikers’ paradise Lake and/or mountain Peaceful Spectacular scenery Wildlife haven

Utilities

Charging facilities Dump station Electric car charging point(s) Propane/gas cylinders available Recycling available Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby Convenience store nearby Dog walk nearby Public transportation nearby

Type

Large (51-200 sites)

Nearby leisure

Canoeing/kayaking nearby Climbing nearby Cycle hire nearby Cycling nearby Fishing nearby Golf nearby Horseback 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 +0100 (GMT+01:00)

GPS

57.14226°N
4.68313°W

Nearest transport

Bus
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.

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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?
    RV, travel trailer and tent sites
    Arrive:  4 p.m. –  8 p.m.
    Depart by:  10 a.m.
    On-park 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 $27.11 (for 1 night, 6 people) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.