Waterfalls
in Inverness-shire.

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Inverness-shire

Falls of Foyers, Plodda and Glen Affric.

The glens around Loch Ness are full of falling water. Above the loch at Foyers, a waterfall drops some 140 feet into a wooded gorge, reached by stepped paths from the village, and Burns praised it in verse in 1787. At Invermoriston, the river pours under Telford's old bridge of 1813, watched over by a small stone summerhouse. Near Tomich, Plodda Falls drops through a gorge among giant Victorian conifers, with a platform over the top. In Glen Affric, Dog Falls runs through dark pools in a rocky gorge among old pines. Wear good shoes, as the paths can be steep and wet.

From the magazine9 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 12Issue 12Spring / Summer 2026

In the tropical glasshouse at Inverness Botanic Gardens you can sit beneath banana and cabbage palms and watch koi beside a waterfall.

The gardens stand just back from the River Ness, once known as the Floral Hall, and their warm glasshouses shelter tropical blooms and cacti from the cold Highland air. Cameron Hall-Gardiner, who started out as an arborist on the Ness Islands next door, reaches them over the Victorian iron bridge on his favourite walk through the city, and calls them a dear and personal oasis. 'It contains a modest tropical glasshouse with temperatures to suit'. Outside, the gardens offer colour and life in every season, with peaceful benches for sitting a while.

See Inverness Botanic Gardens · Inverness-shire

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