From gravel driving to luxurious escapes, discover the Highlands and Islands of Scotland with the corporate that does it finest.
Wilderness Scotland, recognized for providing distinctive small-group guided mountaineering and biking journeys, in addition to wildlife-focused journeys and wilderness retreats throughout the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, has unveiled a spread of new journeys for 2025. Catering to those that crave out of doors journey led by distinctive native guides, these brand-new journeys provide every part from thrilling gravel rides and luxurious trekking adventures to in-depth explorations of Scotland’s serene lochs, historical forests, and heather-clad mountains.
“These new journeys are about serving to vacationers type a deeper reference to Scotland’s landscapes, historical past, and tradition,” says Stevie Christie, Managing Director of Wilderness Scotland. “Whether or not it’s by means of the joys of biking alongside a distant gravel path, exploring one of the best elements of the West Highland Approach, or absorbing the pure great thing about Perthshire, these are itineraries that shine the sunshine on Scotland’s wild coronary heart. As at all times, every of those journeys additionally displays our deep dedication to sustainable, accountable journey, and offering our company with immersive, unforgettable experiences.”
Discover one of the best elements of the famed West Spotlight Approach on this new luxurious tour. (Wilderness Scotland)
Luxurious Strolling – Highlights of the West Highland Approach
The magic of strolling in Scotland may be distilled into the enduring West Highland Approach, a basic long-distance trek masking 96 miles/154 km from Milngavie to Fort William within the Highlands. On this new, 10-day luxurious journey, company will discover a few of this route’s most lovely sections, together with gorgeous Glencoe and the wild West Coast, while having fun with stays in upscale lodging (assume five-star nation homes and baronial mansions) and unique experiences alongside the best way.
The tour begins in Glasgow, earlier than heading north to Milngavie, the trailhead for the West Highland Approach. Over 10 completely paced days, vacationers will take pleasure in a rigorously curated itinerary that balances participating mountaineering with iconic websites, culturally wealthy experiences, and upscale eating and lodging.
Highlights embody:
- Stays on the five-star Inverlochy Fort Resort, a Nineteenth-century baronial mansion near Ben Nevis, and Glenfinnan Home Resort, a surprising Scottish nation home that sits on the banks of Loch Shiel, amongst others.
- A tour of the Glengoyne Distillery, adopted by a tasting of the corporate’s award-winning Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky.
- A ship cruise on Loch Lomond earlier than climbing Conic Hill and taking within the breathtaking views.
- Visits to varied RSPB (The Royal Society for the Safety of Birds) reserves, Rob Roy’s Cave, Doune Bothy, the Glenfinnan Monument, and extra.
- Mountaineering alongside some of the dramatic sections of the West Highland Approach, passing the formidable slopes of Buachaille Etive Mòr (one of many best-known of all of the Munro peaks) to a zig-zagging path up the Satan’s Staircase.
- An in a single day keep in Kinlochleven, a coastal village within the Scottish Highlands that was the primary village on this planet to have each home linked to electrical energy.
- An opportunity to find the hovering buttresses and glistening rock of Glencoe, beginning with a cease on the eco-friendly customer middle, then a hike by means of the realm’s wild panorama, and ending up at a conventional climbers’ pub to hearken to a charming storyteller.
- A hike to Steall Falls, or An Steall Bàn, Scotland’s second-highest waterfall, which is located within the shadow of Ben Nevis, the UK’s highest peak.
2025 Departures: Could 4-13, June 1-10, and August 31-September 9 || Pricing: Beginning at US$7,462.00 per individual.
Go deep in Scotland’s forests on the brand new Perthshire & Loch Lomond tour. (Wilderness Scotland)
Wilderness Strolling – Perthshire & Loch Lomond
This brand-new, seven-day guided journey of Perthshire and the Southern Highlands, together with the chance to enter the center of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs Nationwide Park, leads company previous lochs, deep forests, and hovering heather-cloaked mountains. Accompanied by a educated Wilderness information, vacationers will study each the folklore and the faultlines of the area as they hike a spectacular part of the West Highland Approach and up Ben A’an’s pyramidal peak.
Highlights embody:
- A hike by means of Glen Tilt, a surprising valley that snakes its manner into the southern bounds of the Cairngorms Nationwide Park.
- The prospect to “bag a Munro” within the form of Schiehallion or Sìth Chailleann (Gaelic for “fairy hill of the Caledonians”), a boulder-strewn mountain that gives commanding views throughout Rannoch Moor to the precipitous tors of Glencoe and is house to many essential species corresponding to ptarmigan, mountain hare, and the uncommon mountain willow.
- A ship journey throughout Loch Lomond earlier than strolling an attractive part of the enduring West Highland Approach path, passing by the notorious outlaw Rob Roy’s Cave and Doune Bothy, a small mountain cabin.
- A hike up Conic Hill, which lies on the Highland Boundary Fault.
2025 Departures: Could 10-16, August 9-15, and September 6-12 || Pricing: Beginning at US$3,382.00 per individual.
One in all two new gravel excursions, this one takes cyclists into and thru the dramatic Highlands. (Wilderness Scotland)
Gravel Biking – Highland Gravel Path
A brand new journey and a brand new journey fashion for Wilderness Scotland, this seven-day itinerary is among the two brand-new gravel journeys accessible from the corporate in 2025, complementing its ever-expanding roster of guided biking holidays, which additionally contains numerous street biking and E-bike adventures.
On this totally guided journey by means of the dramatic Highlands, company will pedal alongside gravel highways, forest tracks, and paths that twist and switch all the best way from Milngavie to Aviemore within the Cairngorms. A journey that strikes the right steadiness between glorious driving, various landscapes, and engaging historic websites, it was the trail taken way back by highland drovers and their many heads of cattle, connecting the historic cities and villages of Scotland, making them excellent for a point-to-point cross-country journey.
Highlights embody:
- Biking by means of the japanese flanks of The Trossachs Nationwide Park, by the shores of Loch Lubnaig, alongside a historic railway line to the western tip of Loch Tay the place the misty spray of the Falls of Dochart affords a cooling end to the experience.
- Exploring the evocative ruins of Finlarig Fort.
- Pedaling by means of Glen Lyon, typically described as Scotland’s “longest, loneliest, and loveliest glen,” to the Bridge of Balgie earlier than setting out throughout the wild Rannoch Moor, house to golden eagles, peregrine falcons, and purple stags.
- Spending a novel night time at a distant and superbly wild hostel on the tip of Loch Ossain.
- Pedaling by means of a panorama dominated by rugged mountains, wild moorland, and thick forests into the very coronary heart of Cairngorms Nationwide Park.
- Testing the Ruthven Barracks, which had been constructed after the 1715 Jacobite rebellion, after which persevering with alongside the sting of the Insh marshes, some of the essential wetland areas in Europe.
2025 Departures: June 2-8 and August 16-22 || Pricing: Beginning at US$3,787.00 per individual.
One other new gravel journey that was additionally lately launched and accessible to ebook in 2025, is the seven-day Galloway and the Lakes gravel biking journey. Beginning in Scotland, it explores the deep inexperienced forests and secluded glens of Galloway Forest Park earlier than crossing the border into England to pedal by means of the charming panorama of the Lake District.
For data on all of the above journeys, and to see the complete line-up of mountaineering and biking adventures with departures year-round, go to WildernessScotland.com.
For journey choices in England and Eire, together with many new additions for 2025, go to WildernessEngland.com and WildernessIreland.com.
In regards to the Wilderness Group
Wilderness Scotland, established in 2001, is rated Europe’s No.1 Rated Journey Journey Firm by Nationwide Geographic and is Scotland’s solely five-star accredited journey tour operator. In 2012, its outpost Wilderness Eire was launched, and the launch of Wilderness England adopted in 2020. Providing an unrivalled vary of small-group departures, self-guided journeys and customized holidays, Wilderness Scotland, Wilderness Eire, and Wilderness England prepared the ground in energetic and nature-based journey to the distant and wild corners of Scotland, Wales, Eire, and England. Fashionable out of doors experiences embody mountaineering, street biking and kayaking. Wildlife, cultural, images and crusing adventures are additionally accessible. For extra data, go to www.wildernessscotland.
