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Scotland
About 29 miles away
White sand beaches and the Callanish Stones, at Scotland's Atlantic edge.
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Quiraing
A tumbled landscape of cliffs, pinnacles and hidden plateaus at the northern end of the Trotternish ridge.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free; paid parking
- Time Needed
- 2½ hours
- Address
- Quiraing car park, Staffin to Uig roadDirections
- Getting There
- About 40 minutes by car north of Portree, on the steep, narrow road from Staffin.
Why Go
Here too the land has slipped and broken away, leaving the Needle, a jagged pinnacle 37 meters tall, the Prison, a rock like a castle keep, and the Table, a flat grassy plateau the size of a football field hidden among the crags. A path from the top of the road loops around them.
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