WildlifeHidden gem
Faraid Head
Durness, Scotland
A flat grassy headland with puffins in early summer and a lighthouse-free shoreline.
- Cost
- Free
- Time to allow
- 2 hours
Walk or drive to the end of the Balnakeil road and follow the track across dunes to the head. Puffins nest here from roughly May to July.
Good to know
- Best time for puffins is late spring to midsummer
- Stay on the track in bird breeding season
- Vehicles
- Fine in any car
- Dogs
- Dogs on a lead
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