About Walkhighlands

Promoting walking in Scotland

Walkhighlands is the award-winning independent website for walkers. With 4,000 visitors each day, viewing well over 1.5 million pages each month, Walkhighlands is the most popular walking website in Scotland and the busiest routes site in the UK; our visitor traffic is currently trebling each year. Our aim is to be the best possible information site for walking in Scotland. Whilst most routes are currently in the Highlands coverage is now being expanded across the rest of Scotland. The website has won the very presitigious Scottish Thistle Award for Innovation - recognised as an Oscar of the Tourism Industry - and won both the Tourism award and was declared the overall winner at the Herald Digital Awards.

Our main objective is to promote walking in Scotland and provide a free source of information, but in doing so we also aim to help the small, local tourism businesses so vital to the Highlands economy through providing low-cost, highly-targetted advertising. We can also offer free promotion of walking routes for local authorities and access managers.

The site is growing all the time and currently features over 1,000 walking routes including everything from Munros to short woodland walks. Each route has an OS map, a podcast giving the correct pronunciaton and meanings of the place-names, a 3D visualisation, gradient profile, download for GPS and much, much more. We have been featured twice on BBC Radio Scotland, and been mentioned in newspapers including The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Scotsman, The Herald and the Press and Journal, as well as local papers.

The site was founded in February 2007, following a highly successful pilot on the Isle of Skye, and was chosen as one of 26 new Scottish businesses to win funding from NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) under the 'Starter for Six' programme for innovative business ideas.