CountrysideArgyll & the IslesNational Trust for Scotland4.4
Free entry for National Trust members
This place is cared for by the National Trust for Scotland, a separate charity. Under the INTO reciprocal visiting arrangement, National Trust members from England, Wales and Northern Ireland get free standard entry. Show your current membership card at admissions.
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Free for everyone.
The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.
From the B8035 turn at Tiroran and follow the Burg signs to the end of the tarmac, then through two gates along the track to the Trust car park at grid reference NM477275, 22 miles from Craignure. In 2026 it is temporarily unavailable for forestry works: use the road junction beside the old church, about 15 minutes' extra walk. No facilities; NTS does not say whether there is a charge.
Burg is the wild western tip of Mull's Ardmeanach peninsula, basalt cliffs and grassy terraces facing the open Atlantic, bequeathed to the National Trust for Scotland in 1932 as one of its earliest properties. The prize is MacCulloch's fossil tree, the imprint of a trunk engulfed by lava about 50 million years ago, reached by a five-mile coastal walk from the Tiroran road end and, at the very end, a steel ladder down to the shore, so allow at least eight hours there and back and check the tides. On the way are Bronze Age cairns, an Iron Age fort and the ruins of 19th-century townships, with golden eagles, sea eagles, red deer, feral goats and otters, and in June the rare slender Scotch burnet moth. Reviewers call it remote and rugged and prize their eagle sightings. Tips from visitors: the path is rough, narrow and steep in places, there are no facilities, dogs cannot manage the ladder, and Bearraich at 432 metres is a good alternative for views.
The usual car park is temporarily closed for forestry works; park at the road junction beside the old church, which adds about 15 minutes each way (NTS, September 2026). The access track is still passable on foot.
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Dogs, with restrictions
From the car park to the fossil tree and back, 5 miles each way, about 8 hours; wide tracks then a narrow steep path and a steel ladder down the cliff; tide dependent.
