#1
Glen Affric pinewood
Ancient TreeSurviving fragment of Caledonian forest. Scots pines, juniper, capercaillie if you're quiet.
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Scottish Highlands · Scotland, UK
Best Hidden Trails in the Scottish Highlands
Drovers' roads, holy wells and Caledonian pinewood beyond the NC500.
The Highlands' best walking isn't on the Munro tick-list. It's the old drove roads between glens, the Pictish stones standing in farmers' fields, and the last fragments of the original Caledonian forest. Midges in summer; the rest is yours.
#2
Corrieyairack Pass
Hidden TrailGeneral Wade's 18th-century military road. Thirty miles of empty mountain, well-paved.
#3
Clootie Well, Munlochy
Sacred SiteHealing spring hung with thousands of rags. Older than Christianity in Scotland.
#4
Ardvreck Castle ruin
RuinRoofless tower on a Loch Assynt promontory. Reach it on foot from the north side for the view.
#5
Sandwood Bay
ViewpointBritain's most remote beach. Four miles in, no road, sea stacks the colour of rust.
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