One of the highest waterfalls in Britain, a 120-metre ribbon of white water at the head of the Glen Nevis gorge
Steall Falls, or An Steall Bàn (“the white spout” in Gaelic), pours 120 metres down a crag at the head of Glen Nevis, the deep valley that runs up behind Ben Nevis. That drop makes it one of the highest single-fall waterfalls in Britain, set in the Ben Nevis and Glen Coe mountains and among the easier big ones to reach. You get there on a rocky path that climbs through a tight gorge above the River Nevis, then opens out into a flat meadow with the fall straight ahead across the water. A three-wire rope bridge crosses the river to the foot of the falls, a real test of nerve and entirely optional, since the view from the meadow is just as good. The gorge path is slippery in places and takes care, but plenty of families walk it in summer.
