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Sustainable Travel Destinations

From the hills to the sea, Dumfries and Galloway offers an overabundance of natural destinations for visitors.

Sustainable Travel Destinations

Galloway Forest Park

Galloway International Dark Sky Park<

Good Dark Sky viewing places:

Walking in Galloway

Machars Walks

Newton Stewart Walks

Galloway Forest Walks

Dumfries and Galloway Core Footpaths

  • Core paths are key public access routes which have been identified across the region.

The Merrick

The Merrick (summit elevation is 843 metres/2,766 feet), is the highest mountain in the Southern Uplands and southern Scotland.

Cairnsmore of Fleet

Cairnsmore of Fleet (summit elevation is 711 m/2,333 ft), is the most southerly mountain in Scotland.

Local Wood near to Wigtown

Forestry and Land Scotland Climate Emergency

Borders Forest Trust

Dry stone walls run through lush green grass fields. The Galloway hills are in the distance.

"The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital."
- Murray Bookchin