North Coast 500: Ask your questions and share your tips and advice for the NC500
We've had a number of discussions in the past about the North Coast 500, also known as the NC500, so I thought it would be good opportunity to have one main discussion where people can share their recommendations or ask any questions they may have if planning this incredible route.
Some campsites you might want to consider include:
- Culloden Moor Club Campsite
- Brora Club Campsite
- Dunnet Bay Club Campsite
- Birchbank CL Site
- Drumbhan CL Site
- Inchbae Caravan and Motorhome Site
- Choraidh Croft
- Kinlochewe Club Campsite
If you're planning on touring the NC500 ask your questions here or if you have toured the NC500 please share your photos, recommendations and favourite Club Campsites and CL Sites along the route.
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Just a word of warning, at least for this year. The situation is that there are many more ticks about than in previous years, on the west coast at least, a nd not just in the long grass, also that the midges are out in force earlier than usual both in the early morning and during the evening.
With such good weather up to now the campsites, at least the C&CC ones, are very busy, with "Site Full" signs in place at both of their Oban and Glencoe sites these last 10 days, and the wardens expect it to continue this way for a while yet.
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For anyone keen on “ticking off” routes, there’s also the SW300, which is based around Dumfries and Galloway and parts of Ayrshire. It’s mainly coastal, but ventures inland into the hills and forests of the area, and is far, far quieter than the NC500. It has a huge variety of places to pitch up, from (both) Club Sites, CLs, CS’s, private, commercial, Forestry stopovers, and Aires. Wonderful scenery, you get the Gulf Stream warming the seas on the coast late Summer, so it’s fabulous for sea swimming, and the gardens are tropical and lush. Lovely little villages and towns, lots of Literary connections (Wigtown, Gatehouse of Fleet, etc..), castles, abbeys, gardens. Cycling and walking trails.
Top tip from me………don’t rush things, Scotland is far too beautiful to be merely a tick box, Instagram exercise. Venture away from the suggested routes and you won’t get caught up in the rush from place to place, the haven’t got a clue hirers of MHs (impolite and selfish is the polite version for some of them, although those hiring via the Club are fine).
Wild swim beach on Galloway coast.
Logan Botanical Gardens on Mull of Galloway.
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Sango Sands, Durness.
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LLong Time since we used that site, 15 years?. We didn't know we were doing the NC500, it wasn't a thing then. But that site and the Castle of Mey, along with other places including Orkney have stayed long on the memory. It would have been this time of the year and we enjoyed wonderful weather. One day we might get back, but for now memories have to suffice.
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Those pics were 2014 before the NC500 was 'invented'. It’s a fabulous area and beyond, too, to Orkney and Shetland or west to the Outer Hebrides. We did them all. Unforgettable!
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