Places to explore in Dumfries and GallowayScotland · Southern Scotland

A 60-metre tail of water hanging in the Moffat hills, with wild goats on the crags and Loch Skeen hidden in the hanging valley above.

Dumfries and Galloway

Unique triangular moated fortress.

Rose-red Cistercian ruin near the Solway.

Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve on the Solway merse, famous for wintering barnacle geese and whooper swans.

Robert Stevenson lighthouse of 1816 on the northern tip of the Rhins, now run as a hotel.

Squat white tower of 1749, among the oldest lighthouses in Scotland, on the Solway shore.

Scotland's southernmost lighthouse, a Stevenson tower on the cliffs where the Irish Sea meets the Solway at the tip of the Rhins.

A roofless clifftop shell just south of Portpatrick, once a stronghold of the Adair family

A coast-to-coast crossing of southern Scotland's empty hills, from Portpatrick to the North Sea.

344 km · Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders & South Lanarkshire

Largest of the Islands of Fleet, a low-tide walk from Carrick shore to the site of an early Christian chapel and graveyard

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Secluded sandy bay with rock pools on the Borgue coast, backed by low cliffs and walks.

Granite memorial above Loch Trool marking Robert the Bruce's 1307 victory, with a fine loch-and-hills panorama.

Dumfries and Galloway