Camping in the Scottish Highlands: what to know
The Highlands are the reason many people take up camping. Pitching beside Loch Leven with the Glencoe peaks above, or on the shore of a Wester Ross sea loch with Torridon’s sandstone giants behind you, is camping at its most spectacular. The Cairngorms add ancient Caledonian pine forest, red squirrels and Britain’s highest plateau.
Distances are long and facilities sparse, so sites with a shop, drying room and hot showers are worth their weight in gold. Skye and the west coast are busiest; Sutherland and the far north remain gloriously empty even in August.