CountrysideDumfries & GallowayNational Trust for Scotland4.8
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 car park charge is waived for National Trust for Scotland members and, under the INTO reciprocal arrangement, National Trust members.
£5 for non-members
Gravel car park on the A708, £5 per day for non-members, free for National Trust for Scotland members and, under the INTO arrangement, National Trust members. Room for motorhomes; bike racks.
Grey Mare's Tail is one of the highest waterfalls in Britain, a thin white plume dropping 60 metres from the hanging valley of Loch Skeen into Moffat Water, ten miles from Moffat. The National Trust for Scotland's reserve covers the fall and the hills above it, home to feral goats, peregrine falcons on the crags, ring ouzels and ospreys, with rare vendace in the loch and White Coomb for hill walkers. A surfaced path of 100 metres leads from the car park over a footbridge to a viewpoint at the foot of the fall; the path up the east side to the loch is steep and exposed, with a drop beside it, and takes about half an hour each way. Reviewers say the climb is worth the nerves and that the loch is unbelievably beautiful and quiet. Tips from visitors: parking is pay and display, free for members, with room for motorhomes; keep dogs on a lead for the goats and sheep; and rangers run fossil walks in season.
No visitor centre. The car park is on the A708 between Moffat and Selkirk.
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Dogs, with restrictions
There and back from Grey Mare's Tail car park; 3 miles (5km), 2 hours, difficult, 302m ascent; parking 5 pounds a day, free for members.