A short walk to a beautiful white beach - great place to watch for wildlife or just potter about.
Good path - improved in 2011 by the National Trust for Scotland it replaces the previous boggy path.
Plockton is served by both buses and the railway.
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Plockton airfield. Map and directions.
As you approach Plockton by car, turn left at the school (signed for the railway station). Don't drive into the station, but instead follow the road, turning left when signed 'Dubh Aird' and 'Beach access'. After the next couple of corners, there is room to park near a green caravan and a wooden footpath sign. Alternatively, you could walk to this point from Plockton village (2 kilometres each way).
Turn along the track as indicated by the wooden sign ('Footpath to the Shore'). After passing through a gate continue straight ahead, ignoring the track off to the right. The track ends at a turning area, close to another green caravan. Go through the gate straight ahead here, and follow a path through the gorse bushes. This path used to be extremely muddy, almost impassable in places, but landowner the National Trust for Scotland improved the path in 2011.
The path doglegs right slightly into some woodland. Bear left here and continue downhill, soon reaching the beach after scrambling carefully down the slabby rocks. The beach sand is made out of dried,calcified sea weed known as maerl, like the similar but better known coral beach on Skye.
It is a beautiful and completely peaceful spot; a place to linger. When you've had enoug the return is by the same outward route.
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Walking can be dangerous and is done entirely at your own risk. Information is provided free of charge; it is each walkers' responsibility to check it and navigate using a map and compass.
