Achindarroch Touring Park

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Achindarroch Touring Park This friendly, family run site lies in a quiet, picturesque location at the foot of Glen Duror on

26/10/2026

Apologies to anyone trying to call, but due to Digital Voice and Storm Boelo, we have no power or phone. It’s due back on by Wednesday šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø. In the meantime, please message on here and you can reach us šŸ˜€.

22/10/2026

Hi all, we are closing for our annual break on Sunday 1st November 2026 and will reopen on Monday 23rd November 2026. Please still call and email during this time and we will get back to you when able. Thanks for all your visits so far this year and remember that we are open over the festive period as usual and still have availability.
We are changing to a new online booking platform in the coming weeks which will hopefully make booking easier and you shouldn’t notice any disruption but if you do, please let us know and we will book you in manually.
Thanks again šŸ˜€

22/09/2026

Mr and Mrs now occupying the box šŸ¦‰šŸ¦‰šŸ˜€

Final touches to the Pod’s Cook Shelter… lights, pots and pans, plates, mugs and utensils.  Let’s hope the equipment is ...
20/09/2026

Final touches to the Pod’s Cook Shelter… lights, pots and pans, plates, mugs and utensils. Let’s hope the equipment is kept clean as we’re not currently charging for them. Onto the next project šŸ˜€.

09/09/2026

Please be aware that we are no longer accepting bookings that intend to arrive in any Campers or Motorhomes hired from Indie Campers. If you have already booked, please get in touch and we will refund your booking. Sorry for any inconvenience.

08/09/2026

That’s the new Owl box getting used for the first time šŸ’ŖšŸ¦‰

That’s the Pod Cook Shelter complete šŸ˜€.
29/08/2026

That’s the Pod Cook Shelter complete šŸ˜€.

A bit of a wet day today, but quite a nice evening now.  We do live in a beautiful place ā˜ŗļø
07/06/2026

A bit of a wet day today, but quite a nice evening now. We do live in a beautiful place ā˜ŗļø

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14/05/2026

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On this day in 1752, a gunshot in the Highlands sparked Scotland’s greatest unsolved murder mystery.

It was just six years after the Battle of Culloden. The Highlands had been broken.

Tartan was strictly banned. The Gaelic language was suppressed. And the British Government had sent a man named Colin Campbell of Glenure, known locally as the "Red Fox", to act as a ruthless land agent.

His job was brutal. He was ordered to evict the local Stewart families from their ancestral lands in Appin, an area sitting right next door to the still-raw memory of the Glencoe massacre. The tension was at boiling point.

On 14 May 1752, Campbell was riding through the woods of Lettermore, near Duror, when a hidden marksman fired from the trees. Two musket balls struck him. The Red Fox collapsed and died almost instantly.

Nobody saw the killer.

The government panicked. A high-ranking official had been assassinated in broad daylight, and they needed a scapegoat to make an example of. Fast.

Suspicion fell immediately on the Stewarts. The prime suspect was Alan Breck Stewart, a Jacobite soldier who vanished after the murder and fled abroad. But the man who was arrested was James Stewart of the Glens, a respected Stewart leader who many believed had not pulled the trigger at all.

There was absolutely zero evidence he pulled the trigger. In fact, he had a rock-solid alibi proving he was miles away when the shot was fired.

His trial was a scandal.

It was held in Inveraray, deep in Campbell territory. The judge was the Duke of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell. The jury contained Campbells. It wasn’t a trial. It was a legally sanctioned ex*****on.

James Stewart was found guilty and hanged. To ensure the message was received loud and clear, his body was left rotting in chains for years overlooking the Ballachulish ferry crossing. A grim, horrifying warning to anyone in the Highlands who dared to resist the state.

The Appin Murder later inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped, but the real mystery has never fully gone away.

To this day, the true identity of the assassin who shot the Red Fox remains one of Scotland's most closely guarded secrets. It is allegedly passed down only by word of mouth through generations of the Stewart clan, never to be written down.

Who killed the Red Fox?

A Stewart avenger?
A hidden Jacobite?
Or someone far closer to Campbell himself?

More than 270 years later, Scotland still doesn’t know āš”ļøšŸ“ó §ó ¢ó ³ó £ó “ó æ

Address

Achindarroch Touring Park
Highland
PA384BS

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+(44) 1631740329

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