Highlands & NC500 · base 4: Durness & Balnakeil
4B Faraid Head
Out and back, from the Balnakeil Bay car park by the ruined Balnakeil Church.
3.8 kmeach way, on our map
105 m+of climbing, at least
About 3 hours there and backEasy to moderate
Load it into a walking app or GPS. It is the same line as the map in the book.
The ground
Beach, a track up through the dunes, then a fence line to a cairn on the headland.
Official figure: 2.5 miles (4 km) to the headland (The Highland Council, Durness Path Network, Route 5). Source: highland.gov.uk. Things change: check the updates page and the signs on the day.
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