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Balnafoich

Balnafoich was once only a small croft, but is now a little settlement lying 7 miles south of Inverness, in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

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Balnafoich was once only a small croft, but is now a little settlement lying 7 miles south of Inverness, in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Balnafoich

Airports
Aberdeen (ABZ), 121 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 168 km · Glasgow (GLA), 170 km
  • Aberdeen → Balnafoich
    129 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £15–21
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Balnafoich
    169 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · £22–29
  • Glasgow → Balnafoich
    170 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · £24–32
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No local-transport research exists yet for Balnafoich

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Balnafoich. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inChange at Portree for ferries from the Western Isles via Uig.
  • Get inCitylink Bus 961 runs from Ullapool, ferry port for Stornoway on Lewis, twice M-Sa and once on Sunday.
  • Get aroundThey can usually offer minibuses suitable for groups, and pick up from the airport or Invergordon cruiser terminal for day tours.
  • Go nextThe most accessible part from Inverness is Cairngorm mountain itself above Aviemore, a ski resort with a funicular railway.
  • Go nextIf you get all the way to Thurso you can take a ferry to the Orkneys, and from there to Shetland.

From Wikivoyage: Inverness, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of SkyeGB

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

    125 km
  2. 02
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    140 km
  3. 03
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    169 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    186 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    188 km

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