Editing Cape Wrath (section)

== Transport ==
[[File:View of Bridge at Daill on Cape Wrath Road - geograph.org.uk - 1393888.jpg|thumb|right|View of bridge at Daill on the Cape Wrath road looking east towards the Kyle of Durness]]
From the south, the only route to the Cape is on foot from [[Sandwood Bay]] and [[Kinlochbervie]]. Access is restricted at times by military operations on the Cape.

A rough road of around {{convert|11|mi|abbr=on}} links the lighthouse with the [[Kyle of Durness]] which is crossed by a passenger ferry service operating between May and September.<ref name=bbccoast /> The road was built as part of the lighthouse construction in 1828 and, in places, uses a series of rock causeways to cross peat bogs and [[revetment]]s to maintain a route along steep slopes. Materials for the road were quarried locally and there are a number of quarrying sites along it.<ref name=road /> The road is marked with milestones and crosses the Allt na Guaille and Kearvaig River on contemporary arched bridges.<ref name=road>[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/296087/details/kyle+of+durness+to+cape+wrath+lighthouse/ Kyle of Durness to Cape Wrath lighthouse], Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 2013-02-05.</ref><ref name=guaille>[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/296029/details/allt+na+guaille/ Allt na Guaille], Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 2013-02-05.</ref><ref name=kearvaigbridge>[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/291045/details/kervaig+river+road+bridge/ Kearvaig River road bridge], Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 2013-02-05.</ref> The original slipway on the Kyle of Durness was built north of Daill with an associated storehouse similar to that at Clais Charnach.<ref name=roadnorth>[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/297992/details/kyle+of+durness+storehouse+to+cape+wrath+lighthouse/ Kyle of Durness storehouse to Cape Wrath lighthouse], Royal Commission on the ancient and historical monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 2013-02-08.</ref> This was linked by a rough track with the road being extended south the slipway at Ferry House during the 1830s.<ref name=roadnorth /><ref name=roadsouth>[http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/296870/details/kyle+of+durness/ Kyle of Durness], Royal Commission on the ancient and historical monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 2013-02-08.</ref>

The road, the U70, passes the hamlet of [[Achiemore, Durness|Achiemore]] where a Ministry of Defence check-point blocks access to the cape during live firing exercises.<ref name=sentry /><ref name=scotsman8apr10 /> It passes the farmsteads of Daill and Inshore, where the MoD uses the remaining house,<ref name=inshore /> before a track to the right links the road to the old hamlet of Kearvaig, where there is a beach and Kearvaig House which the [[Mountain Bothies Association]] have converted into a [[bothy]]. Margaret Davies, a walker, was found there dying of starvation in 2002.<ref name=kearvaig /><ref name=bothy>[https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,862057,00.html Margaret's story], ''The Guardian'', 2002-12-18. Retrieved 2013-02-05.</ref> A minibus service operates along the road during the summer period linking the ferry slipway with the lighthouse.<ref name=bbccoast /> The road, ferry and minibus service are suspended during military training operations on the cape.<ref name=modcape />