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With towering mountains sweeping down on both sides, GLencoe
is at once spectacularly beautiful and yet strangely forbidding
- a legacy perhaps from the infamous massacre that took place here
on a snow-driven February night in 1692.
Today visitors are drawn to Glencoe for its dramatic landscape,
wealth of wildlife and varied geology. Glencoe is also the cradle
of scottish mountaineering and the area provides some of the finest
climbing and walking country in the Highands.
  
Nestling into the landscape at the foot of the glen is the award-winning
eco-friendly GLencoe Visitor Centre. A perf3ect stopping-off point
if you're travelling through on the A82, with a cafe, a well-stocked
shop and a viewing platform. Here you can access the information
point and get weather forecasts, as well as friendly advice from
rangers at the outlook station.
Learn more about the area with a visit to the exhibition Living
on the Edge, which has exciting interactive displays and activities
for adults and children. FInd out what it feels like to climb on
ice, discover how the glen was formed, and try your hand at solving
the conservation issues faced by the Trust.
During the summer, a programme of ranger-led walks and events start
from the Visitor Centre. Our popular Wildlife Land Rover Safaris
allow visitors of all abilities to get a completely different view
of the glen and its wildlife in the company of a ranger.
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