Rum National Nature Reserve
Almost the whole of Rum is a national nature reserve, run by NatureScot, and it is the wildest of the Small Isles: forty square miles of mountain, moor and empty coast with one village and no roads beyond the tracks.
The Rum Cuillin rise straight from the sea, the red deer at Kilmory have been studied for fifty years, and the hills hold one of the largest Manx shearwater colonies in the world, the birds coming in after dark. There is nothing to pay and no gate; you arrive by ferry at Kinloch and walk. Give it more than a day trip if you can, because the long tracks to Harris and Kilmory are the point.
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Places to stay near Rum National Nature Reserve, and when each is next free.
Coruisk House- Sleeps 4
- In Elgol
- 12 miles from Rum National Nature Reserve
Glenbrittle Campsite- To stay
- In Small Isles
- 13 miles from Rum National Nature Reserve
Bothan Beileag- Sleeps 2
- In Heast
- 19 miles from Rum National Nature Reserve
Bothan Buidheag- Sleeps 2
- In Heast
- 19 miles from Rum National Nature Reserve
Scotland, in print.
Every photograph commissioned, every word written by somebody who went. Printed twice a year, made in Scotland.