The Aros Centre

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3/5)

About The Aros Centre

The Aros Centre is a heritage centre with information, shops and other facilities.

There are forest walks and picnic sites that start from the Centre car park with spectacular views of the Skye coast.

Also next to the Centre is the 'Alphabet Trail' that describes the Gaelic alphabet with trees along the route, and can be accessed easily close by.

How to get there:

The Aros Centre is in Portree.

The Aros Centre is just south of Portree on the A850 Kyleakin to Portree road.

There is a twice daily bus service between Inverness and Portree.

Portree, Bracadale, Dunvegan, Carbost, and Isle of Skye are the nearest towns or villages.

OS Grid Reference: NG478427
For details of public transport visit http://www.travelinescotland.com

Facilities:

Activities

	Aros Walk

Contact:

Recreation
01463 791575
e-mail: invernessross&skye@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

User Comments

1 Star
An awful place, just like all tree plantations. Plantations like this suck the soil empty of nutrients within three rotations (plant, cut, plant, cut, plant cut), that is, if there is any soil left at all after this. Plantations effectively kill the land. Even when the trees are there, no matter how beautiful they still are, calling a plantation to a forest is like calling the lion cage in the zoo the Savannah. Both the plantation and the cage lack virtually all species that belong in the natural community of life in their so-called equivalents, all apart from the species corporations can make money out of. The owners of plantations kill the land where human and non-human people live and get rich doing it, while destroying life and livelihood for those people. End plantations now!

Arthur Sevestre, 20/Nov/2010

Forestry Commission Scotland is working across the country (and in the local area) to establish, maintain and develop a range of native woodlands that provide habitats for huge range of animal and plant species. However we do have to balance this with the need to produce commercial timber crops that help to sustain the forest industries in Scotland. It might not seem like it when you are at a plantation but overall we feel that we've got the balance about right in trying to get the best for both worlds...

Forestry Commission Response

5 Stars
it would have to be one of the most beautiful sites in Scotland. Absolutely breathtaking

Anonymous, 21/Jan/2010

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