Walk: Randolph’s Leap – foray along the Findhorn

📌 Logie, Moray
★★★★

Danger! Hazardous Cliffs – Risk of Flash Flooding! warns the foreboding sign as you leave the comfort of the visitor centre and excellent café at Logie Steading. Don’t worry, the paths are usually perfectly safe, but the River Findhorn is a wild beast – as a height marker stone marking the unbelievably high peak of the 1829 Muckle Spate confirms when you pass it beyond the Bridge of Logie. This is probably the most popular of the walks along the Findhorn, and deservedly so; whether or not your visit coincides with the amazing autumn colours, spate conditions or a serene bluebird day, it’d be difficult to pick a bad time for this walk. As for Randolph: he was a 15th century local earl. Embroiled in a battle with the neighbouring Comyn family, a number of men jumped across the Findhorn here to escape an ambush. Don’t try it…

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish at Logie Steading, B9007 6 mi south of Forres

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NJ 007505

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 57.533782,-3.661153

❌ No public transport within 1 mi

🚗 Car park

📝 Key info

▶ 4 km / 2 mi | ▲ 60 m | ⌛ 1.5 hr

Features: 🏠 Logie Steading; 🌊 Findhorn Gorge & Randolph’s Leap

⬤ Easy | Clear paths with some rough sections; very short stretches of minor road.

➡️ Figure-of-8 circuit (anticlockwise for both halves): start & Logie Steading – Bridge of Logie via River Findhorn east bank – cross bridge & keep right – confluence of River Findhorn & River Divie by riverside path – Randolph’s Leap (furthest southern point of circuit) – keep left beyond to return to road – return to start with shortcut via main access drive

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Speckled wood butterflies, woodland birds. Cows in fields around Logie Steading.

Weather: Well broken cloud, temperature in high teens.

May 2024