Staffin Bay is dominated by the dramatic basalt escarpment of the Quiraing: its impressive land-slipped cliffs and pinnacles constitute one of Skye’s most remarkable landscapes. From a parking area at the highest point of the minor road between Staffin and Uig you can walk north to the Quiraing in half an hour.
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Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
Luskentyre
29.89 MILES
Luskentyre is one of the biggest and most beautiful beaches in Scotland, famed for its acres of low-tide white sands and turquoise waters. A minor road…
Inverewe Garden
26.76 MILES
Six miles north of Gairloch, this splendid place is a welcome splash of colour on this otherwise bleak coast. The climate here is warmed by the Gulf…
Dunvegan Castle
17.73 MILES
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Russian Arctic Convoy Exhibition Centre
29.27 MILES
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St Clement’s Church
26.51 MILES
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Isle of Harris Distillery
26.54 MILES
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Skye Museum of Island Life
3.83 MILES
The peat-reek of crofting life in the 18th and 19th centuries is preserved in the thatched cottages, croft houses, barns and farm implements of the Skye…
Old Man of Storr
9.9 MILES
The 50m-high, pot-bellied pinnacle of crumbling basalt known as the Old Man of Storr is prominent above the road 6 miles north of Portree. Walk up to its…
Nearby Trotternish attractions
1. Skye Museum of Island Life
3.83 MILES
The peat-reek of crofting life in the 18th and 19th centuries is preserved in the thatched cottages, croft houses, barns and farm implements of the Skye…
2. Staffin Dinosaur Museum
4.01 MILES
In an old stone barn by the roadside, this museum houses an interesting collection of dinosaur footprints, ammonites and other fossils discovered in the…
3. Duntulm Castle
4.13 MILES
Near the tip of the Trotternish Peninsula is the ruined MacDonald fortress of Duntulm Castle, which was abandoned in 1739, reputedly because it was…
4. Fairy Glen
4.42 MILES
Just south of Uig, a minor road (signposted ‘Sheader and Balnaknock’) leads a mile or so to the Fairy Glen, a strange and enchanting natural landscape of…
5. Old Man of Storr
9.9 MILES
The 50m-high, pot-bellied pinnacle of crumbling basalt known as the Old Man of Storr is prominent above the road 6 miles north of Portree. Walk up to its…
6. Coral Beaches
16.59 MILES
From the end of the minor road beyond Dunvegan Castle entrance, an easy 1-mile walk leads to the Coral Beaches – a pair of blindingly white beaches…
7. Aros Centre
16.67 MILES
On the southern edge of Portree, the Aros Centre is a combined visitor centre, book and gift shop, restaurant, theatre and cinema. The St Kilda Exhibition…
8. Dunvegan Castle
17.73 MILES
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