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⛰️ Bag yourself another Munro
We recommend
Mar Lodge Estate
Britain’s largest National Nature Reserve – a wildlife wonderland in the heart of the Cairngorms
🌼 Find the right root on a garden walk
We recommend
Threave Garden & Nature Reserve
A garden for all seasons and a haven for wildlife, with an osprey platform and bat reserve
- Garden, café, visitor centre and shop
- 10.00–16.00
- Threave House
- Closed
- Nature Reserve
- Dawn–dusk
Pitmedden Garden
Re-created Scottish Renaissance walled garden with vibrant floral designs and Museum of Farming Life
- Garden, museum, tearoom and shop
- Closed
- Grounds
- dawn–dusk
🎬 You’ve seen the film, now visit the set
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Glencoe National Nature Reserve
Dramatic mountains, rare beauty and haunting history in the heart of the Highlands
- Visitor centre and turf house
- 09.30–16.00
- Highland Coo Café
- 09.30–16.00
- Glencoe National Nature Reserve
- Daily
Culross
Step into the past along the cobbled streets of a picturesque village with its own ochre-coloured palace
- Palace and garden
- Closed
- Shop
- Closed
- Bessie’s Café
- Closed
👣 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
The Hermitage
Walk through towering Douglas firs to the folly of Ossian’s Hall, and gaze over the falls
Crarae Garden
Tranquil woodland garden with Himalayan plants and tumbling waterfalls
- Visitor centre, shop and café
- Closed
- Garden
- 10.00–16.00 (honesty box)
⚔️ Follow the rise and fall of the Jacobites
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Glenfinnan Monument
Moving tribute to those who died fighting for the Jacobite cause, framed by dramatic Highland scenery
- Visitor Centre
- 09.30–16.00
- Monument View Café
- 09.30–16.00
- Viaduct View Café
- Closed
- Monument
- 11.00–12.30 and 14.00–16.00 (turn up on the day or book in advance online, see the Events tab above)
- Grounds
- open daily
Killiecrankie
Magnificent wooded river gorge where one of the goriest battles in Jacobite history took place
Culloden
Powerfully emotive and atmospheric battlefield where the 1745 Jacobite Rising came to a tragic end
- Visitor Centre
- 09.00–16.00 (last entry 15.30)
- Café
- 09.00–15.30
- Battlefield
- Open daily
🐦 Seabird havens and epic coastal views
We recommend
St Kilda
Fragments of the past haunt these islands, now home to the UK’s largest colony of Atlantic puffins
🏝️ Interested in an island-hopping adventure?
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Mingulay, Pabbay & Berneray
Eagles soar and dolphins splash around these Hebridean islands, also home to a rare Pictish stone
💕 Fall in love with more than just the views
We recommend
Glencoe National Nature Reserve
Dramatic mountains, rare beauty and haunting history in the heart of the Highlands
- Visitor centre and turf house
- 09.30–16.00
- Highland Coo Café
- 09.30–16.00
- Glencoe National Nature Reserve
- Daily
☕ Warm up in winter at a cosy café
We recommend
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum
Birthplace of a genius – a celebration of the enduring legacy of Scotland’s national poet
- Museum
- 10.00–17.00 (last entry 16.30)
- Burns Cottage
- 11.00–15.30 (last entry 15.00)
Culzean Castle
Robert Adam’s cliff-top masterpiece rises above a world of woods, beaches, secret follies and play parks
- Castle
- Closed
- Country park
- 10.00–16.00
- Walled garden
- 10.00–16.00
- Home Farm Kitchen
- 10.00–16.00 (last food orders 15.00)
- Home Farm Shop
- 10.00–16.00
- Second-hand Bookshop
- 11.00–15.00
- Old Stables Coffee House
- Closed
- Aviary ice cream parlour
- Closed
- Swan Pond Café
- Closed
- Adventure Cove play park
- 10.00–16.00
- Wild Woodland play park
- 10.00–16.00
- Gas House and Carriage House
- Closed
Newhailes
Palladian house that played a prominent role in the Scottish Enlightenment
- Café
- 9.00–16.00
- Shop and second-hand book shop
- 10.00–16.00
- House
- Pre-booked tours – check Events tab for availability
- Weehailes Playpark
- 10.00–16.00
- Estate
- dawn–dusk
❄ Outside it’s delightful; let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
We recommend
Mar Lodge Estate
Britain’s largest National Nature Reserve – a wildlife wonderland in the heart of the Cairngorms
Glencoe National Nature Reserve
Dramatic mountains, rare beauty and haunting history in the heart of the Highlands
- Visitor centre and turf house
- 09.30–16.00
- Highland Coo Café
- 09.30–16.00
- Glencoe National Nature Reserve
- Daily