Waterfalls in HighlandHighland, Scotland

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

Highland

Chain of crystal-clear turquoise pools and falls on the River Brittle beneath the Black Cuillin at Glenbrittle.

Sligachan

Basalt sea cliff banded like a kilt, with the Mealt burn plunging straight into the sea beside a viewpoint.

Staffin

An Steall Bàn, 'the white spout' — a 120-metre ribbon at the head of the Nevis gorge, among the highest falls in Britain and the easiest of them to reach.

Kinlochleven

A big waterfall — the literal meaning of its Gaelic name — dropping through a deep, sheer gorge on the Allt Coire Banachdich, high in Glen Brittle beneath the western Black Cuillin. Reached only on foot up the river, with the ridge filling the skyline above.

Sligachan

The 165-foot fall above Loch Ness that Robert Burns versified in 1787 — at its best after rain, when the hydro scheme upstream lets it thunder.

Foyers

A 46-metre plunge among some of Britain's tallest Douglas firs near Tomich, with a Victorian viewing platform hung directly over the lip.

Tomich

Salmon-leap falls on the Black Water near Contin — from the suspension bridge you can watch fish throw themselves at the drop in late summer.

Contin

Waterfall dropping through a tree-lined gorge to the sea on the Trotternish coast, with a viewing platform.

Staffin

Long series of cascades tumbling down the hillside above Little Loch Broom near Dundonnell.

Dundonnell

Wooded gorge walk behind Golspie leading to a footbridge below a tumbling waterfall.

Golspie

Fifteen-metre waterfall in a rocky amphitheatre a short walk inland from Clashnessie Bay.

Clashnessie

High plunge waterfall on the Divach Burn above Drumnadrochit, glimpsed from a woodland viewpoint near Lewiston.

Lewiston

Tumbling rapids and pools where the River Affric squeezes through pinewood-clad rocks in Glen Affric.

Tomich

Britain's highest waterfall, plunging around 200m from the moors above Loch Beag near Kylesku.

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RSPB reserve behind Rosemarkie where a wooded burn drops over two waterfalls on an easy half-hour walk.

Rosemarkie

Powerful cascade on the River Kirkaig south of Lochinver, reached by a riverside walk under Suilven.

Inverkirkaig

Rocky river falls near Lairg where Atlantic salmon leap upstream in summer, with a visitor centre and woodland walks.

Lairg

Pretty Highland waterfall reached by a sheltered woodland walk up Flowerdale Glen behind Gairloch.

Gairloch

Tall wooded waterfall reached by a short walk above Kinlochleven at the head of Loch Leven.

Kinlochleven

Rocky falls of the River Moriston framed by Thomas Telford's old stone bridge, reached on short woodland paths.

Invermoriston

Two-tiered waterfall on the Abhainn Garbhaig above Loch Maree, named for Queen Victoria's 1877 visit.

Poolewe

Thirty-metre cascade plunging from Loch na Gainmhich into a steep gorge just off the road near Kylesku.

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