Outdoors

Irvine Beach Park is a long sandy beach and wild dunes. The park boasts great facilities and plenty to entertain the family.

Promoting our remarkable landscape and heritage to local people and to visitors.

Ascog Hall and its stunning Victorian Fernery is a fascinating day out, especially for nature lovers.

Look out for resident wildlife when exploring the coppery sands of Scalpsie Bay, located on the west coast of Bute.

Loch Doon is a freshwater loch in Carrick, Scotland, overlooked by the Glessel Hill and the Corserine Range

Eglinton Country Park is a great day out for all of the family, with a range of activities set out over the huge 400 hectare ground.

Glen Rosa is a stunning glen near Goat Fell mountain, with breathaking scenery.

The beautiful Pirnmill beach located in the small village of Pirnmill on the north-west coast of the Arran.

The Kirktonhall Glen runs from the centre of the Village to the Beaches at Seamill

Lamlash Bay boasts great views out to the Holy Isle, and is the home to Arran Yacht Club. It also has a small beach of soft sand

The Brig o' Doon, sometimes called the Auld Brig or Old Bridge of Doon, is a late medieval bridge in Ayrshire

The naturally occurring Glaid Stone marks the highest point of Great Cumbrae at 417ft.

Ballantrae beach is a nature reserve that offers nesting grounds for a wide variety of birds in the nearby cliffs

Muirshiel Visitor Centre & Country Park gives easy access to ‘great walking in hen harrier countryside’ in what was once an impressive Victorian shooting estate

Boyd Orr Garden, situated near the top of the Main Street, in memory of celebrated Nutritionist and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Lord Boyd Orr