Coming To A Beauty Spot Near You
This sees the beginning of the end to parking up and disappearing into the hills for the weekend. This type of planning decision is coming to a likely location near you. ‘They’ do not want you to visit the wild places. Rather, they want you to visit the visitor centres and managed locations that they will shuttle bus you to.
First published 7/9/23 - https://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/news/pay-and-dismay-parking-charges-planned-at-cairngorms-mos-325780/
There has been a backlash locally to plans to impose parking charges on roads by the strath’s most popular beauty spot with some residents claiming they will be penalised for enjoying the outdoors.
Highland Council wants to introduce street pay and display along Loch Morlich on the C1126 Cairngorm ski road between its junction with Rothiemurchus Lodge’s access road to the snow gates for Cairngorm Mountain.
The local authority also intends to charge for parking on the access road to Glenmore Lodge and on the section of road at the entrance to the Coire Cas car park at the mountain resort.
A maximum stay of only 12 hours would be allowed with the parking from 7am to 10pm costing £2 for one hour; £4 for six hours and £5 for 12 hours.
Parking would be barred in the designated areas from 10pm to 7am next day. The proposal are now out for public consultation.
Cairngorm Runners members who were meeting up at the Hayfield at Glenmore – a regular venue for the group – on Monday night were angered by the move and are urging the council to think again.
Member Colin Cadden said the proposed charges and restricted parking times need to be ‘completely dropped’.
