A Road Trip Through the Scottish Highlands
Two weeks, one estate car, and the long looping road from Inverness up to Cape Wrath and back through the western lochs.
Scotland · November 2025 · 6 min read
The North Coast 500 has become its own small industry. It is still worth doing, especially if you treat the suggested itinerary as a starting point rather than a script and add three days to it.
Our preferred version begins quietly inland, threads up to Durness, doubles back through Assynt — which is the part nobody quite prepares you for — and finishes through Torridon and Glen Affric.
Pack for four seasons in a day. Book the smaller inns ahead. Leave time, every afternoon, to pull over for no particular reason. The Highlands reward the unscheduled hour more than almost anywhere we have driven.
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