by David Oxley | 11 September 2025
This is a challenging but rewarding route through remote country in the heart of the Caithness peatlands. Parts of the road are in good condition and easily followed, but some sections are faint or untraceable and require careful navigation to stay on course. There...
by Eleisha Fahy | 11 September 2025
This old track crosses the remote, quiet and exposed moorland of Caithness. Our description follows the route from north to south, i.e. away from Thurso: From Westerdale take the road southwest to Strathmore Lodge. A track leaves the public road about 1km west of the...
by David Oxley | 11 September 2025
This path and its branches served the pre-clearance farmsteads south of Loch More. For most of the route the path is in good condition, but the final section to Thulachan is over wet ground. There is a ford which might be impassable in spate conditions. Start at the...
by David Oxley | 11 September 2025
The former salmon fishing station is most easily accessed along Mill Road then by a footbridge across the Berriedale Water. An older track descends to the shore from the Berriedale Brae hairpin to the north, but this isn't as readily accessible, the A9 being...
by David Oxley | 11 September 2025
The following survey was published by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland in 2004 and so should still be current. "The harbour is reached from the cliff-top by way of a track cut into the steep slope, which runs in an arc from the...
