Walks you can reach from Muir of Ord by train

Woodland: a fifth under tree cover.

Time: 6h30–13h30

Warnings: Follows a busy road for a third of the walk.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A farm track that becomes a country road, then a useful cycle path beside the road after Evanton. Mostly easy and swift walking on hard surfaces and with a fair amount of road and some traffic. Covers part of the John o'Groats Trail from the Cromarty Bridge to Alness; see jogt.org.uk for the full Trail route.

Time: 4h30–9h30

1 lunch spot: Cornerstone Café

Warnings: Follows a busy road for a quarter of the walk. The country road carries a fair amount of traffic, though it is wide enough for safety with generally good sight lines.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Reverse direction: Railwalks.

A long and varied route following the John o'Groats Trail: an unscenic exit past the industrial port, the Kessock Bridge, then steep climbs into forest with high vegetation, forest paths and minor roads and shore-side stretches. Includes the Cromarty Bridge and a stretch where you must step over railway rails and climb a fence. Covers the Inverness to Culbokie section of the John o'Groats Trail plus the section towards Alness; see jogt.org.uk. Munlochy has a small local shop, and the walk can be broken at Culbokie.

Woodland: a fifth under tree cover.

Time: 9h30–19h

Lunch: Munlochy, roughly mid-route, has a small local shop.

Warnings: Steep climbs through high vegetation mean leg covering is needed. A short stretch near Munlochy is busy with little verge. There is no controlled crossing of the railway near the Cromarty Bridge: you step over the rails and climb a small fence. The Kessock and Cromarty bridges carry heavy, noisy traffic and can be windy. Best split with an overnight stop.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Largely good off-road walking through Culloden Forest and High Wood and down the wooded valley of the River Nairn and though one section near Cawdor cannot be followed without bush-whacking.

Woodland: half under tree cover.

Time: 9h–18h30

Warnings: Between the White Bridge near Clephanton and Kilravoch Castle the route cannot be followed and requires a diversion. The riverside path down the River Nairn is unsafe when the river is high, runs very close to the water with drops of around 2m in places, and can be cut after flooding.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Time: 4h30–9h30

Warnings: Follows a busy road for two fifths of the walk.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Woodland: half under tree cover.

Time: 5h30–11h30

Warnings: Follows a busy road for a fifth of the walk.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Climbs out of Alness past a golf course onto the Scotsburn Road, then is intended to follow forest tracks; in practice much of the marked forest route is impassably overgrown or blocked and leaving a long stretch of tarmac road with fairly frequent traffic. Closely follows the John o'Groats Trail; see jogt.org.uk for additional route descriptions.

Woodland: two fifths under tree cover.

Time: 6h–11h30

Warnings: The marked forest paths are blocked or impassably overgrown in places, and a gate at Scotsburn Farm was locked; walkers may end up on the road for most of the route, which is all tarmac with fairly frequent vehicles.

Walk details: Slow Ways.