About Walkhighlands

Walk Highlands is the award-winning independent website for walkers visiting or living in the Scottish Highlands. Founded by keen hillwalkers Helen and Paul Webster, it is based in Staffin, in northern Skye. With well over 2,000 site visitors each day, Walk Highlands is now the number one website for walkers in Scotland. Our traffic has increased by 300% during 2008. The website has won the very presitigious Scottish Thistle Award for Innovation - recognised as an Oscar of the Tourism Industry - and we are finalists in the forthcoming Highlands and Islands Tourism Awards.

The Walkhighlands.co.uk website was set up 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.

The site is growing all the time and currently features well over 500 walking routes including over 230 Munros. Each route has an OS map, a podcast giving the correct pronunciaton and meanings of the place-names, a 3D visualisation, profile, download for GPS and much, much more. We have been featured several times on BBC Radio Scotland, and been mentioned in newspapers including The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, The Scotsman, The Herald and the Press and Journal, as well as local papers.

Our main objective is to provide a free source of information for those going walking, but in doing so we also aim to help the local tourism businesses so vital to the Highlands economy through provding low-cost, highly-targetted advertising.