Achindarroch Touring Park

07/06/2026

A bit of a wet day today, but quite a nice evening now. We do live in a beautiful place ☺️

14/05/2026

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On this day in 1752, a gunshot in the Highlands sparked Scotland’s greatest unsolved murder mystery.

It was just six years after the Battle of Culloden. The Highlands had been broken.

Tartan was strictly banned. The Gaelic language was suppressed. And the British Government had sent a man named Colin Campbell of Glenure, known locally as the "Red Fox", to act as a ruthless land agent.

His job was brutal. He was ordered to evict the local Stewart families from their ancestral lands in Appin, an area sitting right next door to the still-raw memory of the Glencoe massacre. The tension was at boiling point.

On 14 May 1752, Campbell was riding through the woods of Lettermore, near Duror, when a hidden marksman fired from the trees. Two musket balls struck him. The Red Fox collapsed and died almost instantly.

Nobody saw the killer.

The government panicked. A high-ranking official had been assassinated in broad daylight, and they needed a scapegoat to make an example of. Fast.

Suspicion fell immediately on the Stewarts. The prime suspect was Alan Breck Stewart, a Jacobite soldier who vanished after the murder and fled abroad. But the man who was arrested was James Stewart of the Glens, a respected Stewart leader who many believed had not pulled the trigger at all.

There was absolutely zero evidence he pulled the trigger. In fact, he had a rock-solid alibi proving he was miles away when the shot was fired.

His trial was a scandal.

It was held in Inveraray, deep in Campbell territory. The judge was the Duke of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell. The jury contained Campbells. It wasn’t a trial. It was a legally sanctioned ex*****on.

James Stewart was found guilty and hanged. To ensure the message was received loud and clear, his body was left rotting in chains for years overlooking the Ballachulish ferry crossing. A grim, horrifying warning to anyone in the Highlands who dared to resist the state.

The Appin Murder later inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped, but the real mystery has never fully gone away.

To this day, the true identity of the assassin who shot the Red Fox remains one of Scotland's most closely guarded secrets. It is allegedly passed down only by word of mouth through generations of the Stewart clan, never to be written down.

Who killed the Red Fox?

A Stewart avenger?
A hidden Jacobite?
Or someone far closer to Campbell himself?

More than 270 years later, Scotland still doesn’t know ⚔️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

05/05/2026

The pictures don’t do it justice, but what another stunning night on the hills ☺️.

21/04/2026

Please be aware that between 09:00 and 16:00 tomorrow 22April 2026, there will be no power on site or in the village due to ongoing works. As we are on Digital Voice for a phone system, we will also have no phone during those times and we’re not sure if the answer phone still works, but you can try 😀. Sorry for any inconvenience, but you can still book online if required, or wait until the power is back. Se
See you soon ☺️

05/04/2026

Storm Dave’s impact on the park this weekend 🤣🤣. We had a few worried guests here due to the Met Office weather app. Please be aware if you are looking ahead to book or cancel a booking based on info from the app, that it takes it’s info from the top of Sgorr Dhoniull and not down at our level. We use an app called XC Weather (not sponsored and other apps are available 😉), and it is really accurate 95% of the time. When it’s not though, it’s well out 🤣. We also have a weather widget on the website that’s not bad either. -12 degs was 1.2degs and 75mph gusts was 12.5mph (taken from our weather station on site). If you’re unsure, give us a shout and we can give you some advice for here. I should add that travelling to or from here during the storm timeframes are a different issue as we can’t comment on areas outwith here.
See you soon 😀.

03/03/2026

That’s the online booking system in place as of this morning, so as stated before, for those that prefer to book that way, get clicking and for those that prefer the personal touch, getting phoning and emailing 😀. See you soon!

Achindarroch Booking Welcome to our Touring Park Nestled at the foot of Glen Duror, Achindarroch Touring Park offers a tranquil escape perfectly positioned between the coastal charm of Oban and the mountain grandeur of Fort William. Whether you are arriving by bike along the famous Caledonia Way, pi...

09/02/2026

22/01/2026

As you all know, we have been shy of going down the online booking route. This has probably been detrimental to the volume of bookings that we get, but for us it made it easier to manage. When you called to book, we could explain everything and clarify your exact needs, making sure that you got what you required. However, we have now caved in and got a new booking system 🤦‍♂️. This will hopefully be live on the website by the end of March this year, as we need time to get our heads round it 🤣. This won’t stop us from taking bookings over the phone and for you ‘frequent flyers’, dropping us an email after it’s gone live, and you are more than welcome to continue booking this way if that’s what you want to do. For the time being anyway, keep calling and emailing and we’ll let you know when the new system is live.

See you soon 😀

20/01/2026

Not as great tonight ‘cause of the clouds, but still visible 😀

19/01/2026

Wow, what a showing tonight 😮.