North Coast 500

Main roads

From the map

Longest gap between fuel

46 miles

Fuel stations near the line

35

Curvature

128 ° a mile

Campsites within 2 km

48

• The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 398 to mile 443. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
• The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 231 to mile 251, at 284 degrees of turning a mile.
• Passes: Bealach na Bà (626 m, mile 74).
• 2 motorcycle shops are within 3 km of the line.

Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.

Before you go

• Long stretches of single-track road with passing places on the west and north coasts. Pull in to let faster traffic by.
• Fuel is sparse between Ullapool and Thurso. Fill up whenever you can.
• Bealach na Ba climbs to 626 m with hairpins steeper than 1 in 5. It is often closed or treacherous in snow.

On the way

1. Inverness
2. Achnasheen
3. Lochcarron
4. Bealach na Ba summit
5. Applecross
6. Shieldaig
7. Kinlochewe
8. Gairloch
9. Poolewe
10. Ullapool
11. Drumbeg
12. Kylesku
13. Scourie
14. Durness
15. Tongue
16. Thurso
17. John o' Groats
18. Wick
19. Helmsdale
20. Inverness

Split it into days

Pick the miles you like to ride in a day. Each day ends at the named place on the route nearest that distance, and you get a GPX file for each day.

This is your pace, not our estimate of how long the riding takes. Day lengths vary because each day ends at a named place.