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Ariundle Oakwood

This peaceful woodland is a rare surviving fragment of the native oakwoods that once spread along the Atlantic coast. Ariundle has a huge diversity of mosses, lichens, liverworts and ferns and is home to rare and beautiful butterflies and dragonflies.

• Best time to visit

  April to mid-August for woodland birds, tree mosses, lichens and ferns.

• Getting there

  Follow signs for FCS Airigh Fhionndail car park two miles north of Strontian. Access the Reserve via a track, which also forms part of the FCS Strontian River Trail leading to the Reserve's nature trail.

• Visitor facilities

  Nature trail, interpretation boards.

• Contact

  SNH, The Governor's House, The Parade, Fort William PH33 6BA. Tel: 01397 704716.
  
  FCS, Lochaber Forest District, Torlundy, Fort William PH33 6SW. Tel: 01397 702184.

• Managed by

  Scottish Natural Heritage	Forestry Commission Scotland