The Top 20 Natural Monuments in the Northwest Highlands
Northwest Highlands’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 20
beautiful natural monuments in the Northwest Highlands. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
beautiful natural monuments in the Northwest Highlands. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
Last updated: October 7, 2025
This diminutive mountain is the embodiment of why metres alone do not make a mountain. Its compact perfection makes for a pleasingly efficient mountain adventure, and one that includes the …
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Few hills are as genuinely loved as Suilven. Its isolated island-mountain stature, protruding from the low cnoc-and-loch landscape of Assynt, shares more with the monoliths of Monument Valley than a …
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‘The Grey One’ is regarded by mountain connoisseurs as amongst the finest on mainland Britain. It’s an opinion that’s hard to argue with. An 8km writhing mass of striated Torridonian …
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Awesome view to the Ardnamurchan peninsula and the islands of Eorsa and Ulva in Loch na Keal. Munro giants (Ben Nevis and co) on the mainland can be seen to …
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One of the two Munro summits on Beinn Eighe, Spidean Coire nan Clach is the more easterly of two. The Munro sits in the Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve in …
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The Ben Wyvis NNR has a car park and a good path to follow up the shoulder of this Munro. Once upon its ridge, the walk to the summit is …
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Nestled in Britain’s oldest National Nature Reserve, Beinn Eighe is the third of the great Torridonian giants: an immensely rocky mountain capped by grey-white quartzite. Consisting of two Munro summits, …
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Carn Ghluasaid, a Munro mountain of 957m sits fairly close to the A87, next to Loch Cluanie. A good path leads up from the road. It's a great vantage point …
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Most travel long distances to reach the foot of the most northerly Munro, buoyed by the promise of magical coastal views of the Orkney Islands. Climb the broad south ridge, …
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The falls of Measach are one of the most spectacular waterfalls in Scotland located in a 1,5 kilometer long gorge called Corrieshalloch Gorge.
The falls of Measach plunges down over …
The falls of Measach plunges down over …
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