GuardTrailsDay 2 of 8 · Kingussie · The Balanced Cairngorms Explorer
Day 2 — Kingussie & Highland Folk Museum
A cultural day to your new base in Kingussie, with a short drive (1 h 02).
Stage 2 · Kingussie · United Kingdom
We sleep at Ard-na-Coille, 200 m away
days 2 and 4 3 nights 1 h 02 on the road72 kmclimate favourable
Interest of the place — nature 20. Based on: park; summit reached from the stage (Creag Bheag).
- programme
- 8 h 30
- road
- 1 h 02
- Exploring the open-air Highland Folk MuseumInterest nature 10★☆☆☆☆ · known in 4 languages — article “Highland Folk Museum”“The Highland Folk Museum is an open-air museum and visitor attraction in Newtonmore, in Badenoch and Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom. The museum explores the material culture and everyday life of the Scottish Highlands from the 1700s to the mid-20th century through reconstructed buildings, relocated historic structures, and live interpretation.” — after Wikipedia4 h
- Walking to the historic Ruthven Barracks ruinsInterest nature 102 h
- Traditional Scottish dinner in KingussieInterest nature 102 h 30
To add if time allows: Strolling through the quiet village of Kingussie (2 h)
Bad-weather option — something else that day — Traditional Scottish dinner in Kingussie
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On the way
Stops beside the road, chosen for their small detour — we say they are on the way, we do not promise to go through them.
Culloden Battlefield
Explore the moorland site of the final Jacobite Rising battle which shaped Highland history.
90 min there · detour +7 km · View on Google Maps
© photographed on 5 April 2010 by Mike Pennington — CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Ruthven Barracks
Visit the dramatic ruins of these government barracks built to control the Jacobite clans.
40 min there · detour +4 km · View on Google Maps
© CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
