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Croy And Culloden Moor

Culloden Viaduct – Clava Cairns loop from Croy

Croy And Culloden Moor

Culloden Viaduct – Clava Cairns loop from Croy

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Culloden Viaduct – Clava Cairns loop from Croy

03:12

36.1km

740m

Gravel riding

Hard gravel ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: June 26, 2026

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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2.06 km

River Nairn

Highlight • Trail

Lovely river to cycle along, pity there is not a path all the way along 😄 worth going on the tracks that are there. Mostly single grass track with gravel sections also going into tared roads to get into other sections

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8.54 km

View of the Moor

Highlight • Viewpoint

18.5 km

Carn Kitty Summit

Highlight • Summit

Good track can be a lot of fun in the snow in winter on MTB

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23.9 km

Culloden Viaduct

Highlight • Monument

Designed by Chief Engineer Murdoch Paterson and built by the Highland railway the impressive 29 arches of the Culloden viaduct that stretch over the valley and River Nairn really is a great sight to see on your highland travels. Opened in 1989 and still used today as the main rail link into the Highlands, it is the longest masonry viaduct in Scotland at 1800ft (549m) long and is a Category A listed building.

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24.6 km

Clava Cairns

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Clava cairns are a localized form of Late Neolithic megalithic structures in Scotland. Twelve of these only about 50 artificial round mounds are in the county of Inverness-shire. The best known and eponymous are the three not particularly large ones from Balnuaran of Clava, east of Inverness. A stray phenomenon is the cairn of Carmahome on the Isle of Arran.
Set within a circle of megalithic curbs is the mound of crushed stone, reminiscent of the layout of later Breochs. Inside is the round chamber formed by megaliths, to which a fenced corridor leads. Clava cairns are regularly surrounded by an outer stone circle that surrounds the cairn at a distance of 10-15 meters. The tiered stones of this circle, formed of relatively few stones, are at their greatest height opposite the approach to the cairn, which faces south-west. These features also appear on the Bronze Age ring cairns that occur in the same area. Therefore, it is assumed that the structural similarity points to a contemporary origin. Another context is with the stone circles on the River Dee, which are also tiered in height.
The cairns of the Balnuaran of Clava are flat and therefore, unlike the Corrimony Cairn, the passages are uncovered. Corrimony is a well-preserved specimen, set in a circle of eleven standing stones at Cannich, a few miles west of Loch Ness. A stone with cup and ring markings is also found here. Some of the stones on the grounds at Clava in Lagmore West and at the Cairn of Gask also have cups. Avielochan, about 17 km north-east of Grantown-on-Spey (Morayshire) and "Cairn Irenan", seven km north-north-west of Dingwall (Ross-shire) are more difficult to recognize specimens of the clava type because of vegetation.

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24.8 km

Balnuaran of Clava

Highlight • Natural Monument

4000 year old burial cairns

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25.4 km

River Nairn

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The River Nairn rises in the Monadhliath Mountains of the Scottish Highlands. From here it flows 35 miles northeast through Strathnairn, passing Culloden Moor, site of the Battle of Culloden in 1746, before entering the Moray Firth at Nairn.

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27.0 km

Culloden Battlefield

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Battlefield of the last military conflict between Scots and English in 1746

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30.3 km

High Wood

Forest

36.1 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

25.8 km

8.27 km

1.33 km

646 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

25.9 km

4.47 km

4.24 km

1.15 km

198 m

Elevation

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Highest point (490 m)

Lowest point (50 m)

Weather

Sunday 5 July

17°C

13°C

70 %

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Culloden Viaduct – Clava Cairns loop from Croy

River Nairn

View of the Moor

Carn Kitty Summit

Culloden Viaduct

Clava Cairns

Balnuaran of Clava

River Nairn

Culloden Battlefield

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