Arrochar

Arrochar - historically the heart of the country of the Clan Macfarlane - nestles along the eastern shore of the head of Loch Long, where the glaciers cut a great gap through the hills from Loch Lomond.

Arrochar offers some of the finest features in the Argyll Forest Park. Surging from sea level to high rocky crests, are the Brack, the triple ‘fanged’ Cobbler, (Ben Arthur) Beinn Narnain, and A' Chrois.  

Arrochar's twin settlement on Loch Lomond is Tarbet, the name meaning a portage, or literally ‘drag-boat’. It was through this low gap, (its highest point only 40m (130ft) above sea level), that a bold Viking raiding party detached from the forces of Haakon of Norway, and took their longships overland to Loch Lomond in 1263. They later came to grief on the stormy shore at Largs.