Ben Nevis Distillery

Ben Nevis Distillery, on the main A82 road North, on the outskirts of town.

Max persons 15. Admission free. The visitor centre incorporates a permanent exhibition, a video programme featuring Hector MacDram and a snackbar/shop.

Established in 1825, is one of the oldest licensed distilleries in Scotland. The distillery is nestled at the foot of Britain's highest mountain; (the summit of which is 4406ft above sea level). The production water is drawn from the Allt a'Mhuilinn (The Mill Burn) which flows from the two small lochans in Coire Leis and Coire na Ciste, both of which are located over 3,000ft up Ben Nevis. These lochans must surely provide some of the purest water to be found in Scotland.

Ben Nevis Special Reserve - If whisky could talk then the Ben Nevis Special Reserve would have a tale or two to tell of how it started its life in two small lochans high up in the shoulder of Ben Nevis, Britain's highest mountain; how it tumbled and tossed all the long way down the mountain via the Alt a'Mhuilinn Burn to the historic distillery at its foot, where, through alchemy and knowledge and skill and a wisdom born of many years' devotion, it was converted from pure clean water to