Qualla: Clachaig Inn

Clachaig Inn: Introduction

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit John Armitstead, CC BY-SA 2.0. The sign on the door reads 'No hawkers or Campbells.' It is a joke, mostly. The Clachaig Inn has been serving travelers in Glen Coe since the sixteenth century, and in all that time, the memory of what government soldiers -- many of them Campbells -- did to the MacDonalds on a February morning in 1692 has never quite faded from these walls. Three centuries later, you can still raise a glass to the dead in the same glen where they fell.

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Clachaig Inn: Under the Gully, Facing the Mountain

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0. The inn sits toward the western end of Glen Coe, about three kilometers southeast of modern Glencoe village, on the old road just north of the A82 trunk road. Its position is dramatic even by Highland standards. Behind it rises Clachaig Gully, a precarious descent route from the ...

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Clachaig Inn: Refuge for the Roped and the Restless

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Clachaig has long been the unofficial headquarters of the climbing community in Glen Coe. After a day on the Aonach Eagach -- the hairiest ridge scramble in mainland Britain, where a wrong step means a fatal fall on either side -- or a winter ascent of Bidean nam Bian's icy g...

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Clachaig Inn: Where Memory Lives in the Walls

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit (WT-en) P.K.Niyogi at English Wikivoyage, Public domain. The Clachaig's longevity gives it a quality rare in Scottish hospitality: continuity of place. The mountains do not change. The gully above the inn has been spilling climbers and scree for millennia. The river still runs through the glen to Loch Leven. And the inn itself -- expan...

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Image: (WT-en) P.K.Niyogi at English Wikivoyage | Public domain