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From gentle lochside strolls to full Munro scrambles — every level catered for.

62 trails
Moderate

Glencoe Valley Walk

The Glencoe Orbital is an easy circular walk taking in Glencoe village, the poignant Massacre memorial, and th...

10.0km4 hours200m ascent
Moderate

Quiraing, Isle of Skye

The Quiraing is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in Scotland — part of the Trotternish Ridge on Skye...

7.0km3 hours400m ascent
Moderate

Old Man of Storr

The Old Man of Storr is perhaps the single most iconic hillwalk on Skye, climbing to a dramatic cluster of anc...

4.5km1.5–2.5 hours290m ascent
Moderate

Sandwood Bay

Sandwood Bay is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful and remote beaches in Britain — a vast sweep of...

8.0km3–4 hours50m ascent
Hard

Stac Pollaidh

Stac Pollaidh is one of the most distinctive and celebrated small mountains in Scotland — a dramatically ero...

4.5km2–4 hours550m ascent
Easy

Shieldaig Peninsula Walk

The Shieldaig Peninsula Walk is a delightful circular route onto the An Aird peninsula, which projects out int...

5.6km2-3 hours170m ascent
Hard

Beinn Eighe Mountain Trail

The Beinn Eighe Mountain Trail is widely regarded as the toughest waymarked nature trail in Scotland, climbing...

6.4km4-5 hours580m ascent
Moderate

Ullapool Hill and Loch Achall Walk

The Ullapool Hill and Loch Achall Walk climbs from the harbour town onto Meall Mòr — "great bare rounded lu...

12.0km4-5 hours305m ascent
Easy

Knockan Crag Walk

The Knockan Crag Walk is a short, interpretative trail through one of the most geologically important sites in...

2.4km1-1.5 hours135m ascent
Easy

Little Assynt Walk

The Little Assynt Walk follows the Leitir Easaidh all-abilities path, one of the very few trails in the northw...

2.8km45 minutes20m ascent
Moderate

Balnakeil Bay and Faraid Head Walk

The Balnakeil Bay and Faraid Head Walk explores one of the most beautiful and remote stretches of coastline on...

12.8km3-4 hours260m ascent
Moderate

Duncansby Head Walk

The Duncansby Head Walk follows the dramatic coastline from John o'Groats to the true north-easterly point of ...

5.6km2 hours215m ascent
Easy

Castle Varrich Walk

The Castle Varrich Walk climbs from the village of Tongue to a dramatic ruined tower house perched on a wooded...

3.2km1-1.5 hours120m ascent
Hard

Morven and Maiden Pap Walk

The Morven and Maiden Pap Walk climbs the highest point in Caithness — a steep-sided conical peak visible fr...

16.8km6-7 hours925m ascent
Easy

Loch Fleet and Balblair Wood Walk

The Loch Fleet and Balblair Wood Walk is a beautiful circular route through Loch Fleet National Nature Reserve...

8.0km2-2.5 hours30m ascent
Easy

An Lochan Uaine (Green Lochan)

An Lochan Uaine, known simply as the Green Lochan, is one of the most beautiful and photographed spots in the ...

6.5km1.5-2.5 hours100m ascent
Moderate

Meall a'Bhuachaille

Meall a' Bhuachaille — "Hill of the Herdsman" — is a Corbett standing apart from the main Cairngorms range...

10.0km3-4 hours450m ascent
Moderate

Glen Affric Circuit

The Glen Affric Circuit is a magnificent walk around Loch Affric, widely regarded as one of the finest low-lev...

18.0km4.5-5 hours250m ascent
Easy

Dog Falls, Glen Affric

Dog Falls is a short, family-friendly circuit through pine and birch woodland beside the tumbling River Affric...

4.8km1.5 hours100m ascent
Easy

Uath Lochans

Uath Lochans — pronounced "wah lochans," meaning "hawthorn small lochs" — is a magical mixture of woodland...

6.4km2 hours100m ascent
Moderate

Lost Valley, Glencoe

The Lost Valley — Coire Gabhail in Gaelic — is a dramatic hidden corrie in the heart of Glencoe, its flat,...

3.2km2-3 hours350m ascent
Hard

Coire Lagan, Glen Brittle

Coire Lagan is one of the most impressive corries in the entire Cuillin range on Skye — a small, brooding bl...

9.0km4-5 hours480m ascent
Easy

Neist Point Lighthouse Walk

The Neist Point Lighthouse Walk leads to the most westerly point on the Isle of Skye, a dramatic headland with...

2.4km1 hour60m ascent
Easy

Plodda Falls

Plodda Falls is the highest and most spectacular waterfall in the Glen Affric area, plunging vertically for ar...

3.2km1-1.5 hours80m ascent
Easy

Corrieshalloch Gorge

Corrieshalloch Gorge is one of the most spectacular slot gorges in Britain — a mile-long, 60-metre-deep box ...

1.6km30-45 minutes40m ascent
Moderate

Fyrish Monument

The walk to Fyrish Monument climbs through pleasant forest to a bizarre and striking folly on the summit of Cn...

6.0km2-2.5 hours290m ascent
Easy

Black Rock Gorge

Black Rock Gorge is an unexpectedly dramatic box canyon on the edge of the village of Evanton, its dark, conto...

3.0km1 hour60m ascent
Easy

Reelig Glen

Reelig Glen is a magical, steep-sided wooded gorge west of Inverness, home to some of the tallest trees in Bri...

2.4km45 minutes-1 hour50m ascent
Moderate

Glen Nevis Gorge Walk

The Glen Nevis Gorge Walk follows one of the most dramatic short walks in Scotland, threading through the stee...

10.0km3-4 hours150m ascent
Hard

Cape Wrath Walk

The Cape Wrath Walk covers the final, dramatic stage from Sandwood Bay to the lighthouse at Cape Wrath — the...

17.0km6-8 hours300m ascent
Easy

Craig Phadrig Hill Fort Walk

The Craig Phadrig Hill Fort Walk climbs through pleasant forest on the western edge of Inverness to the site o...

3.8km1-1.5 hours120m ascent
Moderate

Meall Fuar-mhonaidh, Loch Ness

Meall Fuar-mhonaidh may not be a familiar name, but it's the most prominent summit around Loch Ness and one of...

14.0km4-5 hours550m ascent
Easy

Loch Ness 360 Trail - South Shore Section

The South Loch Ness Trail forms the quieter southern half of the Loch Ness 360° Trail, running for 59 kilomet...

22.0km6-8 hours350m ascent
Easy

Rosemarkie Fairy Glen

The Fairy Glen at Rosemarkie is a delightful, easy woodland walk on the Black Isle, following the Rosemarkie B...

3.2km1 hour60m ascent
Easy

Abriachan Forest Trails

The Abriachan Forest Trails offer a superb and varied walk through community-owned woodland and open moorland ...

8.0km2-3 hours150m ascent
Easy

Chanonry Point and Black Isle Coastal Walk

Chanonry Point is internationally celebrated as one of the best places in Britain to watch dolphins from the s...

8.0km2.5 hours50m ascent
Easy

Tain Hill Walk

The Tain Hill Walk is a short, easy climb through mixed pine woodland above Scotland's oldest Royal Burgh, fol...

4.8km1.5 hours110m ascent
Easy

Camore Wood and Dornoch Beach

Camore Wood and Dornoch Beach combines a peaceful woodland walk past the remains of an Iron Age settlement wit...

5.0km1.5 hours30m ascent
Easy

Cromarty Coastal Walk

The Cromarty Coastal Walk climbs through woodland to the South Sutor viewpoint, high above the mouth of the Cr...

6.0km2 hours60m ascent
Easy

Flowerdale Glen and Falls, Gairloch

The Flowerdale Glen and Falls walk follows a delightful waymarked path up a sheltered glen behind Gairloch, na...

7.2km2-3 hours80m ascent
Easy

Red Point Beach Walk

Red Point offers two spectacular sandy beaches at the very end of a remote single-track road south-west of Gai...

8.0km2.5 hours80m ascent
Easy

Victoria Falls, Loch Maree

Victoria Falls is a short, easy waterfall walk on the shores of Loch Maree, named after Queen Victoria who vis...

2.0km45 minutes60m ascent
Hard

Hidden Corrie, Beinn Eighe (Coire Mhic Fhearchair)

Coire Mhic Fhearchair is widely regarded as the finest corrie in all of Scotland — a vast, hidden amphitheat...

19.0km6-7 hours650m ascent
Moderate

Rubha Hunish, Skye's Northern Tip

Rubha Hunish is the northernmost point on the Isle of Skye, a dramatic headland reached along basalt cliffs at...

7.0km3 hours200m ascent
Hard

Sligachan Valley to Loch Coruisk

The walk from Sligachan to Loch Coruisk is a long, wild trek through the heart of Skye, following Glen Sligach...

24.0km8-9 hours400m ascent
Easy

Talisker Bay

Talisker Bay is often described as the finest beach on Skye — a dramatic sweep of black and white sand, fram...

3.0km1 hour40m ascent
Easy

Ben Tianavaig

Ben Tianavaig makes for one of Scotland's finest short hillwalks — a compact hill of only 413 metres, but wi...

5.5km2-3 hours450m ascent
Easy

Kilt Rock and Mealt Falls

Kilt Rock and Mealt Falls is one of the most accessible and dramatic roadside stops on Skye's Trotternish Peni...

2.0km45 minutes30m ascent
Hard

Kinloch Hourn to the Old Forge, Knoydart

The walk from Kinloch Hourn to the Old Forge in Inverie is one of Britain's great low-level treks — a full d...

25.0km8-10 hours900m ascent
Hard

Five Sisters of Kintail

The Five Sisters of Kintail is one of the great ridge walks of the Scottish Highlands — a high-level travers...

15.5km7-8 hours1,390m ascent
Hard

Suilven

Suilven is one of Scotland's most instantly recognisable mountains — a remarkable, isolated sandstone spire ...

20.0km7-8 hours700m ascent
Moderate

Loch Torridon Coastal Path, Diabaig

The coastal path between Diabaig and Inveralligin is a genuinely wild and challenging walk through some of the...

13.0km4-5 hours300m ascent
Easy

Handa Island Loop Walk

Handa Island is one of the great wildlife spectacles of the Scottish coast — an uninhabited nature reserve o...

6.0km3 hours80m ascent
Easy

Loch an Eilein Loop

Loch an Eilein is widely regarded as the finest short walk in Scotland — a beautiful sheet of water reflecti...

5.0km1.5 hoursMinimal ascent
Hard

An Teallach Ridge

An Teallach's ridge traverse is among the finest and most serious mountain days in Britain, contesting the tit...

14.0km8–10 hours1,400m ascent
Easy

Culloden Battlefield Walk

The Culloden Battlefield Walk explores the site of the last pitched battle fought on British soil — the fina...

3.0km1 hourMinimal ascent
Moderate

Fairy Pools, Glen Brittle

The Fairy Pools are among the most photographed natural attractions on Skye — a series of crystal-clear turq...

6.0km2.5 hours150m ascent
Hard

Liathach Ridge, Torridon

The Liathach Ridge traverse is widely regarded as one of the finest and most serious mountain days in Scotland...

11.0km9–11 hours1,500m ascent
Easy

Rogie Falls, Garve

Rogie Falls is a short, spectacular waterfall walk near Contin, where the Black Water river tumbles through a ...

2.0km45 minutesMinimal ascent
Easy

Steall Falls, Glen Nevis

The walk to Steall Falls through the Nevis Gorge is one of the finest short walks in the Scottish Highlands, c...

3.5km1.5–2 hoursMinimal ascent
Easy

Ness Islands Walk

The Ness Islands Walk is a beautiful, easy riverside stroll through the heart of Inverness, taking in a cluste...

5.0km1–1.5 hoursMinimal ascent
Moderate

Achnashellach Forest, Coire Lair Circuit

The Coire Lair Circuit from Achnashellach offers a genuine sense of the high Highlands without requiring a sum...

15.0km4.5–5.5 hours520m ascent

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