13 National Trust places to visit in Highland, including 7 countryside spots, 2 houses & gardens, 2 historic sites. Tick them off your checklist as you go, or see them on the National Trust map.
The oldest house in Inverness, a 1593 town house with a turnpike stair and crow-stepped gables, with a free exhibition on the town in the 1600s.
A 2,500-hectare crofting estate on Loch Alsh facing Skye, with temperate rainforest, a coral beach, 17 miles of trails and Balmacara Square at its heart.
Westernmost of the Small Isles, gifted to the Trust in 1981 with Canna House and its Gaelic archive, with 20,000 seabirds, a harbour cafe and CalMac from Mallaig.
Mile-long slot gorge near Ullapool with an 1874 suspension bridge above the 45-metre Falls of Measach, a viewing platform and a new visitor centre.
Battlefield where the 1745 Jacobite Rising ended, with an immersive visitor centre, clan graves and the memorial cairn on the open moor.
One of Britain's highest waterfalls, a 113-metre drop in the wild hills of Kintail reached only by a six-hour round walk from Morvich.
Scotland's most celebrated glen, a National Nature Reserve of Munros and film locations with an eco visitor centre telling the story of the 1692 massacre.
Tower on Loch Shiel marking where Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his standard in 1745, beside the viewpoint for the Glenfinnan Viaduct.
Thatched Cromarty cottage where the geologist and writer Hugh Miller was born in 1802, with a three-floor museum of his fossils next door and two gardens.
Osgood Mackenzie's sub-tropical garden on a Loch Ewe peninsula in Wester Ross, 2,500 species warmed by the Gulf Stream, with a museum house and estate trails.
The Five Sisters of Kintail and the glens around Loch Duich, the Trust's second-largest estate, with walks from the Morvich ranger base and the Battle of Glenshiel site.
Scotland's newest National Nature Reserve, 750-million-year-old sandstone mountains including Liathach and Beinn Alligin, with a deer museum and loch-side walks.
Remote peatland, moor and mountain at the head of Glen Affric, hours from any road, where native woodland is returning and the old Skye drove road runs through.