Scotland's north-east corner offers a tremendous variety of scenery and walks to match, from long distance footpaths and cross-country routes, to sand dune and cliff-top trails and moderate-level circular hill-walks, where superb panoramas reward relatively little effort. Walking is easily combined with a visit to the many castles, historic gardens and whisky distilleries throughout the area. Signposted walkways, forestry tracks, clifftop paths, mountain ridges, moorland rights of way - it is simply great walking country!

Extensively signposted trails and path networks exist across the Moray forests of Culbin, Roseisle and Speymouth where the shelter of the big trees provides bird-watching and mushroom hunting.

Beach walking is a speciality — go for the wide open beaches of Burghead, Lossiemouth, Cullen, Fraserburgh, Balmedie and St Cyrus. If you’ve a head for heights and suitable shoes, then you might take in some of the cliff paths, notably those at Bullers of Buchan just south of Peterhead.

 
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The Buchan and Formartine Way, using the trackbed of the former Great North of Scotland Railway from Dyce via Maud to Fraserburgh and Peterhead, is the ideal way to see the open farming country of Aberdeenshire. Like any railway, this route uses only the gentlest of gradients.

This area has ideal walking terrain for all levels of fitness, including waymarked paths. These include, for example, the Speyside Way, an official long-distance footpath from the Moray coast by the mouth of the River Spey to the foothills of the Cairngorms; also the Gordon Way, running through the Aberdeenshire heartlands by way of the local landmark hill of Bennachie. For fit and experienced walkers there are plenty of big days out to some of the highest peaks of Scotland (Ben Macdui, for example, is the second highest of Britain’s mountains).

Lying on the North East edge of the Cairngorms is the splendid 58,000 arce Glenlivet Estate. Sample some of the finest scenery in the Grampian Highlands on an extensive network of waymarked trails.

Signposted walkways, forestry tracks, clifftop paths, mountain ridges, moorland rights of way - it is simply great walking country! 

For further information and for other walks in Scotland's Castle and Whisky Country visit www.walkingwild.com

 

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