[4K] A Walk Up Fort William High Street

Fort William is ideally located for those visiting the West Coast. With its numerous shops and cafes on the high street its a great place to visit, why not relax unwind and enjoy a delicious cup of coffee and maybe indulge with a pastry whilst planning your days out. The highland cinema has the latest blockbusters for you to see, or you could pop into the Highland Bookshop which has an extensive stock of books across all subject areas, including fiction, nature, Scottish and children’s, serving the local community and visitors.

The high street has some excellent gift shops to treat yourself and your family, plus a variety of outdoor clothe shops Cotswolds, Ellis Bingham and Nevis Sport to name but a few.

While you are in the high street why not visit the West Highland Museum Museum is one of the oldest museums in the Highlands. It was founded in 1922 by a group of local enthusiasts led by Victor Hodgson, who had neither a collection nor a building to display it in. In 1925, after several temporary exhibitions and the acquisition of significant collections, the Museum launched a fundraising appeal and, in 1926 purchased the present building, a former branch of the British Linen Bank.

Fort William offers some of the most beautiful scenery. The mountain gondolas can whisk you up the Aonach Mor to 2150ft (655m) for excellent views of Ben Nevis and the Great Glen. The Jacobite Steam Train, famed for its connection to Harry Potter, leaves from Fort William on its spectacular journey to Mallaig. Alternatively, Ben Nevis Distillery is a good place to start on the Whisky Trail around Scotland.

[stephenandrews]

It's Heartbreaking that this once great high street is now just full of corporate shops catering for tourists. It just looks truly awful. So where on earth do the locals now go shopping? Because it surely can't be this place, even if they are a captive community. It would certainly help to explain why so many locals have now moved away from the area. That and the fact so many tourists have been buying second homes here, inflating prices and forcing locals out. They move into the area looking for an authentic highland experience and then just turn it into a plastic, corporate town that you can see almost anywhere. No heart and no soul, it's such a shame. ....oh PS: i can now see where the locals go. It's to the few shops towards the end of the street that have been set aside for them. Heaven forbid that the tourists would have to meet with the great unwashed!!! R.I.P Fort William 🪦

[cuhloway.]

Awesome vid 👍 Which camera is this? Cracking.

[minwoo]

Sad looking place. So where are the REAL shops?

[minjeelee]

I visited here a couple of years ago and it really is as bland as it looks