Speyside Way

Highland, Moray

One of the original four Long Distance Routes in Scotland, and now one of the family of Scotland's Great Trails, it traces the course of the River Spey, a renowned salmon river. It links Buckie on the Moray Coast with Aviemore and then on to Newtonmore, and also offers a spur from Cragganmore to Tomintoul (15 miles).

Although the route generally offers easy walking on level ground, much on former railway tracks, before Craigellachie there are climbs to over 900ft on the flanks of Ben Aigan. After Craigellachie it rises gently on the old trackbeds and, after Ballindalloch, a little more steeply in forest to cross the Spey at Cromdale to reach Grantown. Later stages offer views south to the Cairngorms massif and the Lairig Ghru cleft and west to the Monadhliath Mountains. Numerous whisky distilleries are sited along the route. In 2015 the route was extended beyond Aviemore to Kincraig and the recent extension to Newtonmore makes use of the NCN7 cycle route.

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Details:

Path Type:	Scotland's Great Trails
Waymark:	Thistle within hexagon
Attributes:	Scotland's Great Trails Average Gradients Former Railway Coastal Forest/Woodland Moorland River
Start:	NJ425656 - Cluny Square, Buckie, Moray
Finish:	NN716991 - Newtonmore, Highland
Open Date:	1981
Web Sites:	Speyside Way Scotland's Great Trails - Speyside Way Walk Highlands - Speyside Way MorayWays - Speyside Way Undiscovered Scotland - Speyside Way Brian's Walks - Speyside Way [blog] Trailplanner - Speyside Way [blog] Camino Adventures - Guide to Walking the Speyside Way [blog] A walker's journal - The Speyside Way [blog] Watch Me See - Complete Hiking Guide to the Speyside Way in Scotland [blog] Exploring Scottish Trails - Speyside Way - Part 1 [blog] Speyside Way parts 1-3 [YouTube video] Trailwalker - Speyside Way [blog]

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Publications, Badges and Certificates:

Guidebook	Walking the Speyside Way : a Scottish great trail : includes the Dava Way and Moray Coast trails  (Cicerone Press  - 2016 )
Guidebook	Speyside Way  (Rucksack Readers  - 2021 )
General Interest Book	National Trails : 19 long-distance routes through England, Scotland and Wales  (Cicerone Press  - 2015 )
Guidebook	A boot up the Speyside Way  (Halsgrove Press  - 2010 )
Certificate	Certificate for National Trails  (Long Distance Walkers Association )
General Interest Book	Big walks of the north  (Summersdale Publishers  - 2010 )
General Interest Book	Big walks of Great Britain  (Summersdale Publishers  - 2007 )
General Interest Book	Tales from the Big Trails  (Vertebrate Publishing  - 2021 )
Guidebook	Moray Way Companion  (Birlinn  - 2022 )

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