Sunrise favouriteIsle of Skye
The Quiraing
Layered landslip ridges, sea lochs and the Trotternish coast from one extraordinary hillside.
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Sunrise favourite
View from parkingGlencoe
Three Sisters of Glencoe
A roadside grandstand for Bidean nam Bian’s three steep northern ridges.
Accessible lochLoch Lomond & The Trossachs
Inveruglas, Loch Lomond
An easy lochside outlook across island-dotted water to the Arrochar Alps.
Castle classicWester Ross
Eilean Donan Shoreline
Scotland’s most recognisable island castle where three sea lochs meet.
City panoramaInverness & Loch Ness
Inverness Castle Viewpoint
The River Ness, cathedral spires and Highland horizon from the city’s red-sandstone ridge.
Historic panoramaInverness & Loch Ness
Urquhart Castle & Loch Ness
A stone tower and broken curtain walls framed against the dark length of Loch Ness.
Sunset cityEdinburgh & the Lothians
Calton Hill
Edinburgh’s most composed skyline view, with the Old Town, castle and Salisbury Crags in one frame.
Castle coastAberdeenshire
Dunnottar Castle Clifftop
A fortress-topped sea stack divided from the mainland by two deep coastal inlets.
Step-free coastFife
St Andrews West Sands
Two miles of open beach looking back to the Royal and Ancient clubhouse and town skyline.
Roadside wildnessGlencoe
Rannoch Moor from the A82
A wide, road-accessible plateau of dark lochans, peat and distant Black Mount peaks.