NC500 Scotland: Northern Highlands
🚗12 mapped stops
Scotland's answer to Route 66 — empty roads, sea stacks, and ancient geology.
Stops on This Tour (12)
- 1 Inverness Castle Starting point on the River Ness — capital of the Highlands
- 2 Black Isle (Chanonry Point) Dolphins leap in the Moray Firth — one of Scotland's best wildlife spots
- 3 Dunrobin Castle Fairy-tale chateau on the coast — the Dukes of Sutherland's 189-room pile
- 4 Helmsdale Fishing village with a gold rush history — the Strath of Kildonan yields nuggets
- 5 Duncansby Stacks Sea stacks and blowholes at Britain's true northeast corner
- 6 John o'Groats Not the northernmost point, but the most famous — end-to-end journey marker
- 7 Dunnet Head Mainland Britain's actual most northerly point — Orkney visible across the water
- 8 Castle of Mey The Queen Mother's Scottish retreat — intimate castle in windswept grounds
- 9 Thurso Britain's most northerly mainland town — surfers ride the cold breaks
- 10 Bettyhill Village named after Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland — the Clearances memorial
- 11 Tongue Viking-named village on the Kyle of Tongue — castle ruins and sandy beaches
- 12 Durness & Smoo Cave Mainland Scotland's most northwesterly village — a cave with a waterfall inside
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