From gravel driving to luxurious escapes, discover the Highlands and Islands of Scotland with the corporate that does it finest.
Wilderness Scotland, identified 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 supply all the pieces from thrilling gravel rides and luxurious trekking adventures to in-depth explorations of Scotland’s serene lochs, historic 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 way of the fun of biking alongside a distant gravel path, exploring the very best components of the West Highland Method, or absorbing the pure fantastic 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 friends with immersive, unforgettable experiences.”
Discover the very best components of the famed West Spotlight Method on this new luxurious tour. (Wilderness Scotland)
Luxurious Strolling – Highlights of the West Highland Method
The magic of strolling in Scotland may be distilled into the long-lasting West Highland Method, a basic long-distance trek overlaying 96 miles/154 km from Milngavie to Fort William within the Highlands. On this new, 10-day luxurious journey, friends will discover a few of this route’s most stunning 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 way in which.
The tour begins in Glasgow, earlier than heading north to Milngavie, the trailhead for the West Highland Method. Over 10 completely paced days, vacationers will take pleasure in a fastidiously curated itinerary that balances partaking mountaineering with iconic websites, culturally wealthy experiences, and upscale eating and lodging.
Highlights embrace:
- Stays on the five-star Inverlochy Citadel 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.
- Climbing alongside one of the vital dramatic sections of the West Highland Method, 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 the earth 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 heart, then a hike by way of the realm’s wild panorama, and ending up at a standard climbers’ pub to take heed to a fascinating 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 guts of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs Nationwide Park, leads friends previous lochs, deep forests, and hovering heather-cloaked mountains. Accompanied by a educated Wilderness information, vacationers will find out about each the folklore and the faultlines of the area as they hike a spectacular part of the West Highland Method and up Ben A’an’s pyramidal peak.
Highlights embrace:
- A hike by way of Glen Tilt, a surprising valley that snakes its method into the southern bounds of the Cairngorms Nationwide Park.
- The possibility to “bag a Munro” within the form of Schiehallion or Sìth Chailleann (Gaelic for “fairy hill of the Caledonians”), a boulder-strewn mountain that provides commanding views throughout Rannoch Moor to the precipitous tors of Glencoe and is dwelling to many vital species comparable to ptarmigan, mountain hare, and the uncommon mountain willow.
- A ship journey throughout Loch Lomond earlier than strolling an interesting part of the long-lasting West Highland Method 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.
Considered one of 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 likely one of the two brand-new gravel journeys accessible from the corporate in 2025, complementing its ever-expanding roster of guided biking holidays, which additionally consists of numerous highway biking and E-bike adventures.
On this totally guided journey by way of the dramatic Highlands, friends will pedal alongside gravel highways, forest tracks, and paths that twist and switch all the way in which from Milngavie to Aviemore within the Cairngorms. A journey that strikes the right steadiness between glorious driving, numerous 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 good for a point-to-point cross-country journey.
Highlights embrace:
- Biking by way 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 provides a cooling end to the journey.
- Exploring the evocative ruins of Finlarig Citadel.
- Pedaling by way 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, dwelling to golden eagles, peregrine falcons, and pink stags.
- Spending a singular evening at a distant and fantastically wild hostel on the tip of Loch Ossain.
- Pedaling by way of a panorama dominated by rugged mountains, wild moorland, and thick forests into the very coronary heart of Cairngorms Nationwide Park.
- Trying out the Ruthven Barracks, which had been constructed after the 1715 Jacobite rebellion, after which persevering with alongside the sting of the Insh marshes, one of the vital vital 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 not too long ago launched and accessible to e-book 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 way of the fascinating 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 lively and nature-based journey to the distant and wild corners of Scotland, Wales, Eire, and England. In style out of doors experiences embrace mountaineering, highway biking and kayaking. Wildlife, cultural, images and crusing adventures are additionally accessible. For extra data, go to www.wildernessscotland.
