The Top 19 Natural Monuments around Assynt
Assynt’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 19
beautiful natural monuments around Assynt. 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 around Assynt. 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: November 3, 2025
Stac Pollaidh East Summit
Highlight • Summit
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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Suilven
Highlight • Natural Monument
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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Wailing Widow Falls
Highlight • Waterfall
Execute caution when viewing these falls, which are four times higher than Niagara Falls, from the top.
Story taken from 'The Sutherland Trail' by Cameron McNeish and Richard Else: 'Walk …
Story taken from 'The Sutherland Trail' by Cameron McNeish and Richard Else: 'Walk …
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Knockan Crag National Nature Reserve
Highlight • Natural Monument
Knockan Crag ("crag of the small hill") is the site of the first thrust fault discovered (and eventually to be understood as such) anywhere in the world. The crag recognised …
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Old Man of Stoer
Highlight • Natural Monument
200 feet (60 m) high and taking the full brunt of westerly weather in north west Scotland, the Old Man of Stoer is a truly incredible sea stack. Made from …
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