Cow Hill Circuit
4 miles (6.4 km), circular. Starts and finishes at Braveheart car park, Glen Nevis. About 1½ hours, easy.
Start: NN 106 731, and finish. OS grid.
Take it with you: download the GPX file (it opens in OS Maps, Komoot, Outdooractive or a GPS unit) or open the start in OS Maps.
Map incomplete. Forestry and Land Scotland’s line for this walk is about 1.5 miles of the 4 miles its page gives, so the map falls short of the real thing.
Up and down
Almost flat: about 22 m of climbing and 135 m of descent; highest point 143 m.
Facts
- Code
- SC 1527
- Distance
- 4 miles (6.4 km). We measure 1.5 miles along the mapped line
- Publisher’s page
- forestryandland.gov.scot
- Type
- Circular
- Walking time
- About 1½ hours
- Difficulty
- Easy (how we grade)
- Designation
- Regional route
- Region
- Scotland
- County
- Highland
- Total ascent
- About 22 m. Highest point 143 m
Getting there
Starts and finishes at the same place, marked by the dot on the map.
- Bus stops
- Plantation, 440 m from the start. Directions NN 105 736Kennedy Road, 480 m from the start. Directions NN 106 736Lochaber Rd, 490 m from the start. Directions NN 101 729
- Car parks
- Car park, 510 m from the start. Directions NN 105 736Car park, 720 m from the start. Directions NN 101 736Car park (pay), 790 m from the start. Directions NN 103 739
What to expect
Underfoot: gravel and tracks 100%.
Almost all off road.
No stiles recorded.
No steep climbs: no kilometre gains more than about 14 m.
From OpenStreetMap, where mappers have recorded it: check before you go.
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Walks nearby
- UK 020Great Glen WayNational trail, 78 miles, one way. Starts 0.7 miles away
- SC 1370Crofters Woods Walk1.4 miles, one way. Starts 1.6 miles away
- SC 1307North Face Path2.2 miles, one way. Starts 2.6 miles away
- SC 1163Carn Mor Dearg arete3.7 miles, one way. Starts 3 miles away
- SC 1041Stob Ban (white peak) and Mullach nan Coirean (Summit of the Corries)8.2 miles, circular. Starts 3.8 miles away
- SC 1096Ben Nevis Mountain Path4.9 miles, one way. Starts 3.9 miles away
Sources
Checked against forestryandland.gov.scot on 12 October 2026.
- Route line: Forestry and Land Scotland, Recreation routes, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Forestry and Land Scotland).
- Facts: forestryandland.gov.scot
Something wrong or missing?
Tell us what to change about this walk: a wrong distance, a moved start, a path that's closed.