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The crowded shelves and tables of the Hillbillies bookshop beside the Mountain Coffee Co in Gairloch.
Wester Ross

Mountain Coffee Co

A coffee house in Gairloch with home baking and famous scones, joined to Hillbillies, a small bookshop packed with mountaineering, travel and unusual fiction.

Welcome

On Strath Square in Gairloch, a timber-lined coffee house has become a fixture of the road round the north-west.

The Mountain Coffee Company serves good coffee and a counter of home baking, and its scones in particular have a following of their own; there are cheesecakes, bagels, crumbles and cookies too.

Through a door is Hillbillies, a small bookshop crammed from floor to ceiling. It leans towards the outdoors, mountaineering, walking, cycling and adventure, with travel writing, nature and local maps and guides, and a big, idiosyncratic choice of fiction, classics and hard-to-find titles. It is easy to lose an hour browsing, coffee in hand.

There are seats outside for fine days, dogs are welcome, and it opens every day from nine until five. Gairloch's beaches, its museum and the road to Loch Maree are all close by.

Close byHillbillies BookstoreA small rural bookshop next door to the Mountain Coffee Company, Hillbillies is packed with quirky finds.2 min by roadSee itRed telephone box beside Hillbillies Bookstore and Trading Post's orange painted front
Before you go

Open every day, 9am to 5pm, in Google's current record.

Dogs are welcome.

Where
Strath Square, Gairloch, IV21 2BY.
Hours
Every day, 9am to 5pm.
Next door
Hillbillies bookshop.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
9am–5pm
Tuesday
9am–5pm
Wednesday
9am–5pm
Thursday
9am–5pm
Friday
9am–5pm
Saturday
9am–5pm
Sunday
9am–5pm
Where it is

On Strath Square in Gairloch, IV21 2BY.

Close byGairloch.
  1. White cottage below a Highland loch flanked by autumn hillsLoch Maree ViewpointA large car park by Loch Maree, with a way down to the water.5 miles8 min by road
  2. The terraced walled garden at Inverewe, curving beds running down towards the loch and hills.Inverewe GardenThe great garden at Poolewe.7 miles12 min by road
  3. Loch Coruisk valley beneath the jagged Cuillin ridge under grey cloudsLoch MareeThe long loch inland.9 miles18 min by road
  4. Victoria Falls dropping in a white thread through a steep gorge thick with green trees.Victoria FallsA waterfall in a wooded gorge above Loch Maree, a short walk from the road, named after Queen Victoria, who came here in 1877.9 miles15 min by road
  5. Footprints in the sand along a curving bay with grassy dunes and distant cottagesSand BeachThis large sandy expanse is the simply named “Sand Beach” which has some of the best views out to the west.13 miles20 min by road
Directions
Red telephone box beside Hillbillies Bookstore and Trading Post's orange painted frontShoppingHillbillies Bookstore0.4 miles
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