Fort William Highland Festival

There are three Highland Games that occur annually on the way to the Isles. There's one at Glenfinnan, one at Arisaig, together with combined Mallaig and Morar Games. Each is held at precisely the same time each year to help you prepare well forward become there to view the colourful spectacle of highland dance, area and track and ‘heavy’ events. The culmination of each and every games could be the ‘tossing of this caber’, to not be tackled because of the faint hearted.

Glenfinnan Gathering - The yearly Highland Games

The Glenfinnan Gathering or Glenfinnan Highland Games are one of the better inside Highlands. There is not another place in Scotland that surpasses the loch side place enclosed by mountains and much of Scotland's history from 1745 onwards began only at Glenfinnan.

The Games are very well organised. There's ample parking the multitude of site visitors, a beer tent offering a big variety of refreshments, and meals readily available from day to night. This year the Games should be on 20 August 2016.

Arisaig Highland Games and Clan Ranald Gathering

The Arisaig Highland Games and Clan Ranald Gathering are held yearly on the final Wednesday in July. 2016 views the 80th Arisaig Highland Games which will be held on Wednesday 27 July. The venue may be the scenic location of Traigh Farm, Arisaig. Exactly what a treasure is Traigh! White sandy beaches searching on the magnificent vista of Atlantic sea, and our protectors, the Small Isles of Eigg, Rum, Muck, and Canna. In these seas that individuals share with the fishes, you will find whales, dolphins, and otters to be seen. Eagles soar, purple deer roar, shearwaters fly, and herons stretch between water and sky.

The Games features the full range of conventional events including solo piping, tossing the hammer, throwing the caber, highland dancing, and a selection of track and field activities including children’s races. The hefty activities tend to be sponsored by the path to the Isles advertising Group.