📌 Mangersta, Isle of Lewis
★★★★
The coastline around Mangersta features some of Lewis’s most interesting small-scale coastal features, with a wonderful, windswept beach bookended by headlands and several jagged sea stacks. This short but very scenic walk explores the clifftops on either side of the beach before looping around Mangersta village, which has an eye-catching finger-post pointing towards all sorts of unhelpful places.
📷 Chronological photo guide
🌍 Location
📌 Start / finish on minor road 0.5 mi due south of Mangersta, Isle of Lewis
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NB 012307
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 58.164091,-7.082124
🚌 Infrequent bus to Mangersta – join walk route here
🚗 Car parks / laybys
📝 Key info
▶ 5 km / 3 mi | ▲ 140 m | ⌛ 1.5 hr
Features: 🏖️ Traigh Mhangarstaidh ★★★ & headlands to north & south
⬤ Moderate | Grassy clifftops, faint / intermittent paths, sandy beach, quiet roads / tracks.
Download file for GPS➡️ Irregular walk shape: start – Tràigh Mhangarstaidh – headland to southwest – return to Tràigh Mhangarstaidh – headland to northwest – Mangersta – Bairtean – return to Tràigh Mhangarstaidh – start
🥾 On our last visit
Wildlife: Sheep, gulls, oystercatchers, starlings, sandpipers.
Weather: Sunny with scattered clouds, moderate breeze, 12°C.
June 2025
