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An adventure you’ll love

There’s lots to enjoy at all our places. Find some inspiration with these ideas for your next visit.

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👣 Go exploring – it’s time for a new adventure

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Kintail

Exceptional and remote mountain scenery with lochs, glens and the magnificent ridge of the Five Sisters

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Kintail - Open all year, daily

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Arduaine Garden

Bold colours and fragrant scents bring an exotic touch to this Argyll coastal garden

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Garden - 9.30–17.00

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Staffa

Volcanic rock columns are home to black guillemots, fulmars, puffins and the magical Fingal’s Cave

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Staffa - Open all year, daily

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🐦 Seabird havens and epic coastal views

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St Abb’s Head

Breathtaking coastal headland with dramatic cliffs, famed for its seabird colonies

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Nature Reserve - Open all year, daily

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Fair Isle

The most remote inhabited island in the UK, famed for its seabirds and fabulous knitwear

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Fair Isle - Daily

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St Kilda

Fragments of the past haunt these islands, now home to the UK’s largest colony of Atlantic puffins

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St Kilda - Open all year, daily

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💕 Fall in love with more than just the views

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St Abb’s Head

Breathtaking coastal headland with dramatic cliffs, famed for its seabird colonies

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Nature Reserve - Open all year, daily

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Iona

Cradle of Scottish Christianity, surrounded by white sandy beaches and turquoise seas

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Island - Open all year, daily

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Glencoe

Dramatic mountains, rare beauty and haunting history in the heart of the Highlands

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Visitor Centre - 09.00–18.00

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🌊 Waterfalls are natural wonders

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Grey Mare’s Tail

One of Scotland’s favourite waterfalls takes a spectacular 60m plunge into the valley below

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Corrieshalloch Gorge

Walk across the suspension bridge as the River Droma rushes through a mile-long box canyon below.

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Corrieshalloch Gorge - Daily

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Falls of Glomach

A breathtaking Highland waterfall cuts through Scotland’s wildest countryside

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Falls of Glomach - Daily

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🏝️ Interested in an island-hopping adventure?

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Iona

Cradle of Scottish Christianity, surrounded by white sandy beaches and turquoise seas

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Island - Open all year, daily

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Staffa

Volcanic rock columns are home to black guillemots, fulmars, puffins and the magical Fingal’s Cave

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Staffa - Open all year, daily

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Mingulay, Berneray & Pabbay

Eagles soar and dolphins splash around these Hebridean islands, also home to a rare Pictish stone

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Islands - Open all year, daily

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🏖️ Explore beautiful beaches and coastline

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Iona

Cradle of Scottish Christianity, surrounded by white sandy beaches and turquoise seas

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Island - Open all year, daily

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Balmacara Estate

With Skye on the horizon, this traditional Highland crofting estate offers a huge range of outdoor activities

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- Daily

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Culzean Castle

Robert Adam’s cliff-top masterpiece rises above a world of woods, beaches, secret follies and play parks

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Castle - 10.30–16.30

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📚 You’ve read the stories, now discover the authors

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J M Barrie’s Birthplace

The world-famous creator of Peter Pan was born in this traditional weaver’s house.

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House & Garden - 11.00–16.00 (last entry 15.30)

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Souter Johnnie’s Cottage

Home of the shoemaker immortalised by Robert Burns in Tam o’ Shanter

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Cottage - 11.30–17.00

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Robert Burns Birthplace Museum

Birthplace of a genius – a celebration of the enduring legacy of Scotland’s national poet

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Museum - 10.00–17.30

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🙌 It’s time for an adventure – pick a play park

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Brodie Castle

Magnificent turreted castle with a playful garden and over 400 varieties of daffodil

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Castle - 10.00–17.00

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Newhailes

Palladian house that played a prominent role in the Scottish Enlightenment

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Weehailes Playpark - 10.00–17.00

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Culzean Castle

Robert Adam’s cliff-top masterpiece rises above a world of woods, beaches, secret follies and play parks

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Castle - 10.30–16.30

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🐶 Let your dog lead you in the right direction

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Newhailes

Palladian house that played a prominent role in the Scottish Enlightenment

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Weehailes Playpark - 10.00–17.00

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Castle Fraser

One of Scotland’s largest tower houses, with an impressive portrait collection

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Castle - 10.00–16.00

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House of Dun

William Adam’s Georgian house places Baroque extravagance in a spectacular natural setting

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House (hourly guided tours) - 11.00–15.00

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⚔️ Follow the rise and fall of the Jacobites

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Killiecrankie

Magnificent wooded river gorge where one of the goriest battles in Jacobite history took place

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Visitor Centre - Closed

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Culloden

Powerfully emotive and atmospheric battlefield where the 1745 Jacobite Rising came to a tragic end

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Visitor Centre - 09.00–18.00

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Glenfinnan Monument

Moving tribute to those who died fighting the Jacobite cause, framed by dramatic Highland scenery

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- 09.00–17.30

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Stories

Discover more about Scotland’s heritage and how we’re working to protect it.

Meeting our members

At number 100 on our 100 Ways list is meeting our members to share and celebrate all our achievements over the past year at our Annual General Meeting.

Douse the House at Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece

At number 97 on our 100 Ways list, we’re planning to test the waterproofness of the Hill House Box with water pistols.

A harvest with heritage

At number 99 on our 100 Ways list, we’re gathering and sharing the produce of our orchards, which are packed full of beautiful fruit including heritage varieties rarely found anywhere else.

Foraging for fungi

At number 98 on our 100 Ways list, we’re teaching visitors about the hidden world of fungi this autumn.

Brodie bids farewell to favourite trees

Brodie Head Gardener Ed Walling explains why three beech trees have to be felled.

Lighting up the Tenement House

At number 96 on our 100 Ways list is shining light on life in a traditional tenement by restoring its original gas lighting.

Rocking out at Inverewe

At number 95 on our 100 Ways list is a project to renovate our rock garden at Inverewe.

From the edge of the world: part 11

Our new blog from St Kilda reveals what it’s like to spend a season working here.

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Featured events

Douse the House

We need you to test out how the chainmail box is working in the first-ever public participation wet weather test. Anyone with a water pistol – the bigger the better – is invited to come down and douse the house!

28 Sep

Argyll & The Isles

Apple Sunday

Join the celebrations of another harvest at Pitmedden Garden!

29 Sep

Aberdeen City & Shire

The Creepy Crawl at Robert Burns Birthplace Museum

Put on your bravest face as you follow our spooky trails, solve the puzzles and try out our terrifying tasks.

26 Oct

Ayrshire & Arran

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