We took the bus from Oban to Fort William, a scenic 1 1/2 hour trip along Loch Linnhe. Fort William is located at the southern end of the Great Glen. The continuous set of lochs, the Caledonian Canal, connect Fort William to Inverness on the eastern side of Scotland and was completed in 1822.
While there's a quaint downtown, we stayed out on the North Road. It wasn't a scenic, but we were near the trailhead to Ben Nevis to the south and Neptune's staircase and Old Inverlochy castle to the north.
Old Inverlochy castle is a ruined, 13th-century castle:
One of the best parts of this location was watching the Jacobite train steam its way out of Fort William to Mallaig. It's described as one of the great train journeys of the world, and the old "Harry Potter" train is iconic. It's also expensive, so later we took the regular train on the same route. But we loved wandering over to see the steam train.
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