🗺️ NC500 Attractions

Culloden Moor is one of the most emotionally charged places in Scotland — the site of the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746, the last pitched battle fought on British soil and the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising. In less than an hour, government forces under the Duke of Cumberland crushed Bonnie Prince Charlie's Highland army, endi…

Whaligoe Steps are one of the most extraordinary and undervisited places on the entire NC500 — a staircase of 330 flagstone steps cut vertiginously into the face of a 70-metre cliff above a tiny natural harbour used by herring fishermen from the 18th century. The steps were cut to allow the herring fisherwomen (the "gutting girls") to carry their heavy baskets of fish up the cl…

The Clava Cairns are a remarkably well-preserved group of Bronze Age burial chambers dating to around 2000 BC, comprising three large cairns surrounded by rings of standing stones. The passage graves are aligned so the midwinter setting sun shines directly down the entrance passages — a deliberate …