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Glen Etive · Argyll

Three cabins, a long track, and no reason to hurry.

Off-grid timber cabins on the west side of the glen. A wood-burner, a bed up the stair, and a door that opens onto eleven miles of nothing.

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Cabins
Three
Sleeps
2–6
Nearest town
Ballachulish
Dogs
Welcome

The cabins

Built one at a time, ten years apart.

Each one sits out of sight of the others. Rates are per night and include the birch, the linen, and a late checkout when the weather is worth staying for.

  • Corrie

    £180 / night

    Sleeps 2 · One room · Outdoor shower

    The oldest of the three and the smallest. A shepherd’s hut clad in green tin, pitched where the burn turns. Six steps up to the door, four more to the bed.

  • Sitka

    £245 / night

    Sleeps 4 · Two rooms · Deep bath

    Whitewashed stone with a timber extension we added in 2019. The bath sits under the gable window, which faces the Buachaille and very little else.

  • Larach

    £320 / night

    Sleeps 6 · Three rooms · Wood-fired sauna

    The largest, built on the footprint of a byre that fell in during the 1953 storms. Larach means the mark a building leaves behind after it has gone.

Inside every one

The same six things, in all three.

A stove and dry birch
A full basket on arrival and a covered store by the door. It is the only heating, and it is enough.
A bed up the stair
Every cabin has a loft and a solid timber stair to reach it. That is where the name comes from.
No wifi
There is a bar of signal on the rise behind Larach if you need it. Most people stop walking up after the first day.
A kitchen that works
Gas oven, cast iron, a knife worth using, and enough plates that nobody has to wash up mid-meal.
Hot water, always
Drawn from the burn, filtered, and heated by the stove’s back boiler with an immersion for the days you let the fire go out.
A drying room
Small, hot, and the most-used room in the glen. Boots go in wet and come out ready before breakfast.

The glen

Twelve miles of single track, and then you are there.

Glen Etive runs south-west off Rannoch Moor and stops at the sea. There is one road in, no road out the far end, and a red deer population that outnumbers the residents by something like forty to one.

We send written directions with every booking. The satnav gives up at the second cattle grid, and it is right to.

Glasgow
2 hr 40
Fort William
45 min
Oban ferry terminal
1 hr 05
Nearest shop
18 min
Last of the tarmac
4 min

Guests

Most people come back.

  • We booked three nights in Corrie and spent most of the second one arguing about whether we could live somewhere like this. We rebooked from the kitchen table before we left.

    Morgan Fraser

    Edinburgh · Two stays

  • The stair up to the loft in Larach is steeper than you expect and worth every step. Rain on a tin roof, a stove that draws properly, and nobody able to reach me. I have not slept like that in years.

    Ash Nakamura

    Manchester · Four stays

Two-night minimum. Three from October.

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