page_title: Glen Roy
hierarchical_section_title: Glen Roy
caption_attribution_description: English: The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, Highland Region, Scotland, highlighted by recent snowfall.
context_page_description: Glen Roy in the Lochaber area of the Highlands of Scotland is a glen or valley much of which is designated as a national nature reserve noted for the geological phenomenon of the three 'roads'.
  The "Parallel Roads" of Glen Roy are loch terraces that formed along the shorelines of an ancient ice-dammed loch. The loch existed during a brief period of climatic deterioration, during a much longer period of deglaciation, subsequent to the last main ice age. From a distance they resemble man-made roads running along the side of the Glen, hence the name.
  The glen runs north from Glen Spean which takes the main A86 trunk road and the railway of the West Highland Line, both running about a further 23 kilometres southwest via Spean Bridge to Fort William. The village of Roybridge and Roy Bridge railway station are sited where the River Roy joins the River Spean, and from there a narrow single track road runs north up the glen for almost 16 kilometres to Brae Roy Lodge.
context_section_description: Glen Roy (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Ruaidh meaning "red glen") in the Lochaber area of the Highlands of Scotland is a glen or valley much of which is designated as a national nature reserve noted for the geological phenomenon of the three 'roads' ("Parallel Roads"). 
  The "Parallel Roads" of Glen Roy are loch terraces that formed along the shorelines of an ancient ice-dammed loch. The loch existed during a brief period (some 900-1,100 years in duration) of climatic deterioration, during a much longer period of deglaciation, subsequent to the last main ice age (The Devensian). From a distance they resemble man-made roads running along the side of the Glen, hence the name. 
  The glen runs north from Glen Spean which takes the main A86 trunk road and the railway of the West Highland Line, both running about a further 23 kilometres (14 mi) southwest via Spean Bridge to Fort William. The village of Roybridge and Roy Bridge railway station are sited where the River Roy joins the River Spean, and from there a narrow single track road runs north up the glen for almost 16 kilometres (10 mi) to Brae Roy Lodge.
caption: The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, highlighted by recent snowfall
exif: {"Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon DIGITAL IXUS 950 IS", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "180", "Image YResolution": "180", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "", "Image DateTime": "2009:03:10 16:12:36", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image Copyright": "Copyright Richard Crowest/Corvidae Ltd", "Image ExifOffset": "254", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "180", "Thumbnail YResolution": "180", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "3290", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4173", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/125", "EXIF FNumber": "10", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "80", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2009:03:10 16:12:36", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2009:03:10 16:12:36", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "5", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "223/32", "EXIF ApertureValue": "213/32", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "29/8", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "399/40", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3264", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2448", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "Interoperability RelatedImageWidth": "3264", "Interoperability RelatedImageLength": "2448", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "3142", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "43520/3", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "2448000/169", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard"}