Places to explore in MorayScotland · Highlands and Islands

A quartzite sea arch shaped like the tip of a fiddle bow just off Portknockie, best at dawn with fulmars riding the updraughts.

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

4,528 km²

Britain's high sub-Arctic plateau.

655 km²

Landmark contemporary distillery near Craigellachie with a grass-roofed visitor centre set in an estate.

Headland site of a great Pictish fort, with an early rock-cut well and sweeping Moray Firth views.

Long dune-backed sands reached by a footbridge across the Lossie, a favourite family beach.

White-and-black 1846 Stevenson lighthouse above the skerries between Lossiemouth and Hopeman, open for visits.

Wildlife centre at Spey Bay in a restored ice house, a top land-based spot to watch bottlenose dolphins.

A vast flat-topped Cairngorm plateau with big corries cut into its eastern edge, remote and a long walk from anywhere

1196 m

A remote Cairngorms Munro whose broad summit plateau is studded with granite tors, the highest needing a scramble to stand on

1183 m · Moray

Scotland's second-highest mountain.

1309 m · Moray

Sandy bay stretching west from Cullen harbour under the town's great railway viaduct.