🗺️ NC500 Attractions

Stac Pollaidh (pronounced "Stack Polly") is one of the most immediately recognisable and photographed mountains in Scotland — a compact, steep-sided peak with a wildly jagged pinnacled ridge, rising sharply from the flat Coigach moorland above Loch Lurgainn. At 612 metres it is not a Munro, but the walk to its summit ridge is one of the most dramatic short hill walks in the co…

Suilven is perhaps the most dramatically distinctive mountain in Scotland — a great sugar-loaf dome of Torridonian sandstone rising 731 metres almost vertically from the surrounding bogland of Assynt. From every direction it presents a different profile: from the west, a rounded dome; from the east, a sharp spike; from …