Rosehall Wood and the Cassley Falls
I had around half a day free to walk with my dog while my wife was demonstrating spinning at the Highland Sheep Day at Ardgay, close to Bonar Bridge. I had heard there were some fine waterfalls west of Lairg that knocked spots off the paid attraction of the Falls of Shin. I quickly found a walk description on the Walk Highland Site entitled Cassley Falls and Rosehall Forest. Link
and decided this was the place to go. Having parked at the Visitor Information Centre at Rosehall Forest, I wandered off to grab a Grid Square away from my intended route, and on the return towards the car serendipitously took a turning marked with a post to follow way behind a dog walker striking out into the distance. This was an excellent decision as I later found out as this route doubled the length of the original proposed route and without any doubt took me into the most appealing part of the forest. By the end of the day the forest highlights had been in the extended part of the walk.
The Cassley Falls even after a long period of drier than average rainfall were great to see. The ambiance was excellent with woodland, rock gorges, waterfalls and grass meadows in close proximity. Andrew Tryon’s autumn images from the area certainly encourage me to repeat the walk later in the year.
The walk took in the yellow and green way-marked paths in the forest and the section by the river. The riverside path climbs up to the road at Rosehall by stone steps in a stone wall. This was difficult to negotiate with a twelve-year old dog who had to be lifted to the top of the wall that helpfully was at verge level.
Confusingly Ordnance Survey mapping calls the falls the Achness Falls and one version of OS maps calls the forest traversed as Deer Park, and at another scale as Rosehall Wood. Rosehall Forest is managed by Forestry and Land Scotland and the Woodland Trust website recommends visits in the autumn.
The walk was 7.3 km long and took three hours. The shorter Walk Highlands Route would have been 4 km and taken 1-2 hours You can see this trip plotted on a map on the Geo-trips page Link .
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- Sun, 15 Jun 2025 at 22:55
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