Stac Pollaidh, Achiltibuie

Name: Stac Pollaidh
Address: Stac Pollaidh, Achiltibuie, IV26, United Kingdom

#1 among attractions in Achiltibuie

Natural attraction, Top attraction, Park, Mountain

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Stac Pollaidh (IPA:is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. The peak displays a rocky crest of Torridonian sandstone, with many pinnacles and steep gullies. The ridge was exposed to weathering as a nunatak above the ice sheet during the last Ice Age, while the ice flow carved and scoured the smooth sides of the mountain. ()

Alternative names: Elevation: 2008 ftProminence: 1437 ftCoordinates: 58°2'39"N, 5°12'27"W

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Stac PollaidhAchiltibuie IV26 United Kingdom

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Stac Pollaidh – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Suilven, Sgurr an Fhidhleir, Cùl Mòr, Falls of Kirkaig.

5.6 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Suilven, Lochinver
142 min walk • Suilven is a mountain in Scotland. Lying in a remote area in the west of Sutherland, it rises from a wilderness landscape of moorland, bogs, and lochans known as Inverpolly National Nature Reserve.
3.3 miS
Mountain
Sgurr an Fhidhleir, Assynt
85 min walk • Sgurr an Fhidhleir is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. It lies in the Coigach area of Ross and Cromarty. Its summit lies atop a spectacular vertical 500m high cliff.
3.5 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Cùl Mòr
88 min walk • Cùl Mòr is a shapely, twin summited mountain in the far north west of Scotland whose higher summit is the highest point of Inverpolly. It is almost completely separated from its southern neighbour, Cùl Beag.
4.5 miN
Natural attraction, Park, Waterfall
Falls of Kirkaig, Lochinver
115 min walk • The Falls of Kirkaig are a waterfall in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland in the county of Sutherland. The fall is located on the River Kirkaig, south by southeast of the village of Lochinver, on the main approach footpath to Suilven mountain.
2.6 miS
Mountain
Beinn an Eoin, Assynt
67 min walk • Beinn an Eoin is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. It lies in the remote Coigach area in the far northwest of Scotland, north of Ullapool.
2.3 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Cùl Beag
59 min walk • Cùl Beag is a mountain in Coigach, in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. It is 15 km north of Ullapool and lies to the south of Cùl Mòr, and to the east of the better-known but lower Stac Pollaidh.
5.1 miE
58°2'5"N • 5°4'13"W
Knockan Crag Visitor Centre, North West Highlands Geopark
129 min walk • Nature and wildlife, Park
4 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Ben Mor Coigach, Achiltibuie
103 min walk • Ben Mor Coigach is the highest point along a ridge rising steeply from Loch Broom, in the far north-west of Scotland. It rises above the Coigach peninsula, in the county of Ross and Cromarty, 10 kilometres north-west of Ullapool, reaching a height of 743 metres.
0.8 miN
Neighbourhood
Inverpolly, Achiltibuie
21 min walk • Inverpolly is the name given to a large area of northern Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, north of Ullapool. The area contains several prominent hills, rising up from a rough landscape of bogs and lochans.
5.2 miE
National park
Knockan Crag
132 min walk • Knockan Crag lies within the North West Highlands Geopark in the Assynt region of Scotland 21 kilometres north of Ullapool.
6.3 miSW
Island
Horse Island
160 min walk • Horse Island is an uninhabited island in the Summer Isles, in the north west of Scotland. Once inhabited, the island now only supports a herd of wild goats. It rises to a maximum elevation of 60 metres at Sgùrr nan Uan.