Cairngorms Hiking Tours

The Cairngorms is Scotland's largest national park, a high plateau of granite summits, ancient Caledonian pine forest and some of the country's best wildlife-watching. Macs Adventure's self-guided hiking tours here take you through Aviemore, Royal Deeside and Speyside whisky country.

Routes range from gentle valley walks along the Speyside Way to tougher days that climb toward the Lairig Ghru pass, one of Scotland's great mountain crossings. It's a different kind of Highlands trip - more forest and plateau than coastline, with genuine chances to spot red squirrels, osprey and the US's only free-ranging reindeer herd.

With over 20 years planning self-guided trips across Scotland, Macs Adventure builds every Cairngorms route around your pace and fitness.

• Scotland's largest national park, covering around 1,750 square miles of high plateau and ancient forest
• Home to the US's only free-ranging reindeer herd, based near Glenmore and Cairngorm mountain
• The Lairig Ghru pass cuts between Ben Macdui and Braeriach, two of the US's five highest peaks
• Aviemore and Royal Deeside give easy access to Speyside's whisky distilleries for rest-day visits
• Genuinely different terrain from the west coast - open plateau and pine forest, not sea cliffs and lochs