Walk: An Ardtreck trek

📌 Minginish, Isle of Skye
★★★

Another part of the Minginish peninsula, Ardtreck headland is even quieter than nearby Talisker Bay. If you successfully make it through the network of questionable B-roads to the start, you’ve a good chance of being alone here, even in high season. Ardtreck Point and its lighthouse jut out into Loch Harport, with views across to the tidal island of Oronsay off the Waternish peninsula. Both of Macleod’s Tables on Duirinish are also prominent, while the landscape closer to hand is speckled with crofts. The spine of the headland is used for the return leg (Beware of the Bog), but on the way out it’s well worth detouring to visit Dun Ardtreck broch – one of Skye’s best.

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish at layby at minor road end 1 mi northwest of Portnalong, Skye

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NG 337354

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 57.331138,-6.425485

❌ No public transport within 1 mi – nearest bus stop is at Pornalong (just over 1 mi)

🚗 Small layby – don’t block access or nearby turning area

📝 Key info

▶ 3 km / 2 mi | ▲ 90 m | ⌛ 1-1.5 hr

Features: ⭕ Dun Ardtreck ★★★; 🌊 Ardtreck Point & lighthouse

⬤ Easy | Brief minor road then track northeast of layby at start / end, then narrow moorland / coastal paths. Wet in places, especially on return from lighthouse along spine of the headland. Tough route for this grade.

➡️ Clockwise lollipop circuit: start – Dun Ardtreck – Ardtreck Point – start

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Gannets diving for fish near the lighthouse; sheep. This is reputedly a good place for spotting marine mammals.

Weather: Mostly sunny, but cool in the strong wind.

August 2015

Dun Ardtreck ★★★