Destitution Road

Famine-built A832 over the moors past An Teallach, from Dundonnell to Braemore Junction.

The A832 between Dundonnell and Braemore Junction is one of several Scottish roads nicknamed the Destitution Road, built in the 1846 to 1847 potato famine to give crofters paid work for oatmeal rations. From Dundonnell it climbs through a wooded gorge of waterfalls, then breaks out onto open moorland near 330m with the An Teallach ridge filling the western sky. It is a wide-ish but exposed single carriageway with long sightlines and a real sense of emptiness. Mind the convoy roadworks reported near Dundonnell, sudden hill fog on the summit moor, and long stretches with no fuel or phone signal.