Loch Goil

Loch Goil

Loch Goil (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Goill) is a small sea loch in Scotland.

It is an arm of Loch Long. The village of Lochgoilhead stands at its head.

Located in the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park, Lochgoilhead sits at the head of Loch Goil, a fjord type sea loch. Only 1 hour from the Erskine Bridge, Glasgow Airport the M8 and Glasgow. The village is accessed from the Rest-and-be-Thankful pass via a 6 mile single track road. This is a special place, surrounded by hills and mountains, with superb loch views, as well as as wide range of accommodation, leisure activities and entertainment. The landscape at Loch Goil shows its remoteness and Highland Graduer with the Arrochar Alps surrounding with conifers in the Highlands of Scotland.

It is used for exercises by Trident submarines from HMNB Clyde at Faslane.


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