Stevenson Beach

📌 Stevenson, North Ayrshire
★★

Large parts of Ayrshire’s coast consist of sand dunes stretching for miles – in places it’s hard to see where one beach begins and the last one ends. One of the nicer stretches is at Stevenson, where the sands have been designated a nature reserve (thanks to the dunes, which partly overlie old spoil heaps) since 1998. There aren’t any facilities to speak of, and the beach certainly doesn’t measure up well against many Highland coastlines, but the solitude is satisfying enough.