Hello,
I'm thinking of visiting Isle of Mull without a car and will probably be staying in Tobermory. I have the Isle of Mull Cheese and spirits on my tentative list to visit. I know no bus goes directly to there and it says its walkable, 1 mile is no bother at all, but is it really accessible by walking or do you have to take some other paths/roads? I'm trying to avoid a 4 min taxi ride if possible.
Thanks!
I didn't walk it, as I had a car, but I would assume that the route you would take is along the same road. According to Google Maps, it would take about 30 minutes to walk it. Keep in mind that pretty much anything outside of the main town of Tobermory is uphill, so you will be walking uphill for a lot of it to get there. Of course, you get to walk down on the way back.
I think that bus 494, which is the bus from Tobermory to Calgary could get you part of the way up there. You can pick it up at Ledaig Car Park in town, and it will take you to the intersection at Rockfield and Riverside Court, where you would have a 15 minute walk to get to the Mull Cheese. https://www.westcoastmotors.co.uk/services/WCMO/494
And of course I don't know where you're staying in Tobermory. I stayed down on the harbor, so I'm basing my directions from there, but if you are farther away, it might take you longer or shorter. It would also help to know what time of year you were going.
Thank you for the reply! I'm thinking of going in June and staying near the harbour.
Yes it's a steep hill from the Harbour up and then a bit of an incline of of town. Isle of Mull Cheese is a farm so you will be wandering down narrow country roads. We also had a car and so I don't know how much space there would be between you and a car passing, however you can go for a long time without seeing a car so it may not be an issue.
**check in advance for when it's open. We tried to go there a 2nd time in our 3 night stay and it was closed on a Friday.
For reference here's what I write in a Trip Report in 2022:
If you go, check out Isle of Mull Cheese https://www.sgriobruadh.co.uk/. It’s a family-owned farm that produces it’s own cheeses. No tours but they have a small restaurant that is only open from about noon to 3 each day…sometimes. We were expecting some small hole in the wall place, but it was beautiful, and packed with locals. To keep it quaint, there are a couple of dogs that roam the restaurant hoping for handouts. One is huge-it may be a wolfhound and he’s big enough to look down on your plate on the table. If you’re not a dog lover you may not appreciate it, but we loved it.
And in another day;
we drove back to Tobermory and decided to go for lunch at the Mull Cheese Farm again. But there was a handwritten sign at the entrance of the road saying they were not going to open today.
When walking single track roads like that, keep your eyes and ears open, and use the passing places pre-emptively the same as you would in a car- that is if you hear or see a car coming or approaching behind you, recess into the nearest passing place (backwards a few paces if need be). Walk on the right* hand side of the road (that is, facing oncoming traffic) even if the passing places are on the left hand side of the road- and cross into the passing space. If there isn't time to do so then get as tight into the roadside as you can. If there is doubt as to your intentions hand signals to the driver as to what to do are courteous.
*I will sometimes walk on the wrong (left) side of such roads if the road layout gives greater vision of you for approaching drivers- I'm wearing both my walking and driving 'hats'.
It is a very steep climb out of Tobermory.
Have a look at google maps and pull the little yellow man onto the road to get an idea of what it will be like to walk along. It is very narrow without a sidewalk and very narrow grass verge. There don't seem to be that many passing places.
