I first heard about the West Highland Way, Scotland’s first official long distance hiking route, in the mid 1990s, but it took me nearly 30 years to walk it. Growing up in Glasgow, I started doing ...

The lone Highlander atop the Glenfinnan Monument, situated on the edge of Loch Shiel, is just one of many sites that hikers, runners, and walkers may encounter along the West Highlands Way in Scotland ...

Last summer Jennifer Pharr Davis broke the speed record for hiking the Appalachian Trail by trekking all 2,181 miles in 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes. This summer, for fun, she and her husband are ...

Editor’s note: Mark Lorenzoni is writing about his eight-day hike on the West Highland Way, a 96-mile path that runs along the lochs and Highlands of Scotland. Lorenzoni completed the hike with his ...

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The West Highland Way in Scotland stretches 96 miles across the Highlands from Milngavie to Fort William. Considered by many to be a moderate-to-difficult trail due to steep ascents and occasionally ...