Spean Bridge - Corriegour Lodge Hotel (Inverness-shire)

Giant Redwood - June 2012

Situated on the shores of Loch Lochy on the A82 road from Fort Augustus to Fort William are three Giant Redwoods standing in the grounds of the Corriegour Lodge Hotel. As can be seen from the photograph, one has lost its top, probably from a lightening strike, but it is still a tall tree. Thanks to Alex who advised about these trees by texting just before we got there. Then again, it would have been difficult to miss them on the small peninsula, silhouetted against the sky.

Giant Redwood - June 2012

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Giant Redwood - May 2011

In 2023 looking back on old emails, I found that a year before this discovery I was told about it by Tam and I hadn't made a page for this superb photograph of one of the trees in the grounds of the Corriegour Lodge Hotel. Tam had written in 2011; "I found 3 Giant Sequoias at the Corriegour Lodge Hotel on the A82 trunk road (N56.59514, W4.51825). They are all around the 40m height mark." Tam's estimate of the heights was pretty good. Two were just under 40 metres im height when I measured them in 2012.

Common Names and Latin Name	No.	Latitude and Longitude		OS National Grid	Elevation (above sea-level)	Height	Girth	Date Measured
		WGS84	OSGB36
Giant Redwood Sequoiadendron giganteum	1	N56.99243 W4.86314	N56.99265 W4.8619	NN 26158 92676	47ft (14.33m)	37.9m	6.4m	June 2012
	2	N56.99268 W4.86221	N56.99290 W4.86097	NN 26215 92702	40ft (12.20m)	36.8m	--	June 2012
	3	N56.99276 W4.86230	N56.99298 W4.86106	NN 26210 92711	36ft (10.98m)	32.7m	7.13m	June 2012
Girth was measured at 1.5 metres from ground