Bagging Munros, wild camping and mysterious lochs: readers’ favourite wilderness trips in Scotland | Scotland holidays

Camping in the Bone Caves of Sutherland

We live in the north-west Highlands of Scotland and frequently spend our free time having micro-adventures. We tend to avoid the busiest times of year. One February half-term, my sister and I loaded our ageing campervans with mattress and children and headed north to Inchnadamph. Our destination was the Bone Caves of Assynt. The wild camping was free, we were cosy tucked up in the van and awoke to a sprinkling of snow, blue sky and a glorious sunrise. We made the walk up to the caves and back through an uninhabited glen following the limestone river that bubbled over ground and occasionally underground too. The weather held for a chilly paddle in the sea at Clachtoll followed by a camping dinner cooked in the bitter cold at the car park at Knockan Crag with its incredible sculptures and geological timeline that the children deeply connected with. A memorable trip that we may never be able to recreate fully, but I will never forget.
Marion

From dizzy heights to the shore of Nevis

From the tiny settlement of Bracorina, overlooking Loch Morar, is a craggy walk up to a ridge with only lonely lochans, hardy Highland sheep and the odd sea eagle for company. Cross the heights and you are met with a steep walk down through thickets of ferns to an abandoned crofters’ settlement on the shores of the sea loch, Nevis, with views out to the most remote peninsula in the British Isles, Knoydart. This rewarding, sweaty and visceral walk sums up all that is magical about this untouched corner of Scotland.
Miles Watson

An artist’s view of majestic Mull

The Isle of Mull is a rugged paradise and, on its western coast, across a single-lane road flanked by the sea, is the gorgeous Balmeanach. You can book an eight-person farmhouse once occupied by the artist Jolomo (John Lowrie Morrison), where, aptly enough, your surroundings give the impression of having stepped into a sweeping landscape painting. Observe wild deer and birds in the shadow of the Gribun…