Scotland's first International Dark Sky Park, with a managed discovery site and car park purpose-built for stargazing. Genuinely dark by UK standards once autumn arrives, though like everywhere this far north, midsummer nights never get properly dark at all.
First International Dark Sky Park designated in the Scottish Highlands (2018); managed Discovery Site with car park, robust.
Tomintoul Field of Hope Dark Sky Discovery Site car park (near village).
Cairngorms, near Aviemore
A climb onto a genuinely sub-arctic plateau above Aviemore, past Lairig Ghru toward Ben Macdui, in some of the windiest conditi…
Glenmore, Cairngorms, near Aviemore
A sandy loch beach in Glenmore forest with the Cairngorm massif reflected on a still day and a watersports centre right there f…
Rothiemurchus, Cairngorms
A level loop around a loch with a ruined castle on its island, set among some of the oldest Caledonian pines in Rothiemurchus. …