Places to explore in HighlandScotland · Highlands and Islands

McAlpine's 21-arch concrete curve of 1901 above Loch Shiel, now timed to the minute by Harry Potter fans waiting on the Jacobite steam train.

The Cuillin ridge, the Trotternish pinnacles of the Storr and Quiraing, Dunvegan Castle and a long, indented coast of sea lochs

1,628 km²

Skye's westernmost headland, a Stevenson lighthouse of 1909 at the end of a steep concrete path, with whales and basking sharks passing below the cliffs.

The largest sea-cave entrance in Britain, with a burn falling twenty metres through the roof of its inner chamber — half sea-carved, half dissolved.

Towering rock pinnacle on the Trotternish ridge above Loch Leathan, one of Skye's most famous walks.

The still-moving northern end of the Trotternish landslip — a looping path through pinnacles named the Needle, the Prison and the Table.

One of Britain's highest waterfalls, dropping 113 metres into a remote Kintail gorge — earned by a strenuous ten-mile round walk.

Highland

The highest mountain in the British Isles.

1345 m

Pyramid peak guarding Glen Coe's entrance.

1021 m

Island castle where three lochs meet.

A mile of pink sand backed by dunes and a freshwater loch, guarded by the sea stack Am Buachaille — often called the finest beach in Britain, never called crowded.

Britain's biggest national park — a high granite plateau of arctic tundra, ancient Caledonian pinewood and free-flowing rivers.

4,528 km²