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The website for enjoying Scotland’s Great Outdoors, on foot. Views are not ours - they belong to everyone.
The three shapely summits of the Eildon Hills are a celebrated landmark, an icon of the Borders landscape. Ascending all three makes for a classic half-day hillwalk - steep, but with splendid views. Download on #walkhighlands app, or visit our website: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/borders/eild...
This excellent forestry walk combines a visit to a beautiful series of waterfalls with a stroll along a section of an old military road. Download on #walkhighlands app - or view on our website: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/fortwilliam/...
Suilven may be only 731 metres high, but its remarkable outline make it one of Scotland's best known and most easily identified mountains. Download it on #walkhighlands app or view on our website: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/ullapool/sui...
Explore one of Scotland's most picturesque villages on this short walk - taking in the bay, the beautiful cottages, some hidden corners and a fine viewpoint looking to Applecross and the Isle of Skye. Download it on the #walkhighlands app or visit on website: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/kintail/Ploc...
Liathach is rated by many mountaineers and hillwalkers as Scotland's finest mountain, challenged only by An Teallach and the Cuillin of Skye. Its traverse is an expedition that will be remembered forever. Download on the Walkhighlands app or view on website: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/torridon/Lia...
Update on the wildfire around Glenmore and Ryvoan in the Cairngorms National Park If you know of any walkers out on multi-day trips in the affected area, try to make sure they know of the situation. The road to Glenmore is closed; if in doubt about safe escape route, walkers should phone 999. 1/2
One of the most popular sections of the Fife Coastal Path is that linking the largest of the East Neuk fishing ports - Anstruther - with perhaps the most photographed - Crail. On our app or website: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/fife-stirlin...
The Merrick is the highest summit in Southern Scotland and lies at the heart of the Galloway ranges. The popular ascent via Benyellary from Loch Trool provides the easiest route up. Download it now on our app or visit on our website: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/galloway/mer...
Achmelvich Bay has a stunning and popular beach; this walk leads from it along a good path north above the coastline to visit a ruined old mill and hidden sandy cove. There is also the option to hunt for a hidden hermit's 'castle'. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/ullapool/ach...
Ben Cruachan is one of the finest Munros in the southern Highlands, with jagged peaks and fine rocky ridges as well as stunning views. The ridge walk to Stob Dàimh makes for a classic circuit around the Cruachan reservoir. On our app or website: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/argyll/ben-c...
Another new route added last week is this circuit around the Rosneath Peninsula. We'd had a few requests to include this walk. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/lochlomond/r...
We've updated your Munro maps on Walkhighlands to make them easier to use - you can now mark off a hill from it's map marker. It's on the homepage of our app so you can click a hill, go through to the detailed route description and press download to have the mapping & text ready for offline use.
There are few things that beat a journey linking several of Scotland's magical west coast islands. In our latest article, sponsored by Calmac Ferries, we pick 10 of our own favourite walks from travels in the islands off Scotland’s west coast. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/our-pic...
Another of our new routes up on Walkhighlands is this ascent of Beinn a' Mhanaich via its south ridge. Note that this route is sometimes not accessible if the military firing range is in use (watch out for the red flashing lights / flags). www.walkhighlands.co.uk/lochlomond/b...
We've now revamped, rewalked and rephotographed all of our routes around Helensburgh. As well as changing the line of some of the existing ones, we've added new routes to Walkhighlands too - such as this circuit taking in Ben Bowie & Gouk Hill. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/lochlomond/b...
THANK YOU! Four weeks since launch and our new native app has been downloaded by 25,000 of you so far :) Thanks for all the feedback and support to date. If you have it already, make sure you update to the latest version via your app store, plenty of tweaks and minor fixes out now.
It's actually a glacial erratic, unusually deposited atop a grassy hill, and it's just one of several features of interest on this new (to Walkhighlands) route from Callander. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/lochlomond/s...
Does the hot weather put you in a rage? Perhaps that's what drove the giant Samson, who - according to forklore - threw this giant boulder several kilometres from Ben Ledi.
Lots of bugs baking on the trig point on top of Ben Ledi today. Make sure you carry plenty of water and stay hydrated. 💦
Now that was a Summer Solstice! Helensburgh looking pretty stunning in the sunshine today.
Endless views over the Firth of Clyde this afternoon. Always love spotting a distant Ailsa Craig :-)
After the rain: sunshine on the River Fillan at Crianlarich right now.
A new off-road section of the Great Glen Way has been opened taking walkers away from the tarmac for most of the section between Bunloit and Drumnadrochit. Our app and website are updated for the new path. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/new-sec...
The lupins are out along the banks of the River Spey in Grantown. As seen on the Anagach Woods circuit. Free in the Walkhighlands app, as ever.
The circuit around Dunnet Head is surely one of the very best walks on the North Coast - yet we met not a single walker on the route this week. We've updated our route to include more coast and less road-walking on the return leg. Download it now in our free app - or view on our website.
Oldshoremore, Polin and Sheigra beaches, photographed yesterday. It's a bit of a rough wee walk to link the three but so worth the effort. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/sutherland/o...
The sunshine put in a welcome appearance on the Kyle of Durness circuit this afternoon.
Sundew on the Forsinain Trail today - who doesn’t love a carnivorous, midge-eating plant?
Heads up: the Three Sisters car park is closed from Monday to Friday this week (8-12 June) for essential safety improvement works. This is the usual start point for both the Lost Valley and for Bidean nam Bian.
Catching the sunshine when walking across the vast spaces of the Flow Country in Caithness this morning.