Ben Macdui is Britain's second-highest mountain, and reaching its 1309m trig point means navigating the great subarctic wilderness of the Cairngorm plateau. Any hike to the rocky, wide-open summit is ...

This could possibly be "the caravan to save caravaning," or, at the very least, that's the reaction it got on its debut from the local media. This is the Barefoot Bothy, the downsized version of the ...

Burnmouth on the Orkney island of Hoy has been restored after years of decline.

Mountain bikers warm by the fire at Lairig Leacach Bothy, after setting up camp for the night. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian Scotland’s newly reopened mountain bothies are shining examples of ...

The most egg-shaped of all the egg campers, the British-developed Barefoot Caravan has been wowing camper fanatics with its shapely fiberglass since launching over a decade ago. Despite its compact, ...

A wildfire has broken out in the Cairngorms National Park, with large plumes of smoke travelling toward Aviemore and Glenmore ...

If you’re looking for a proper outdoor backpacking adventure on your bike, but don’t have weeks to spend away, then a spot of bothy bikepacking is the perfect solution. Rather than staying under ...

Bothies - remote shelters in the wilderness where walkers can spend the night free of charge - have long been one of Scotland's best-kept secrets. A new book has revealed the location of 80 of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Below the hulking rocky mass of the Devil’s Point, a group of young women approach a small mountain shelter on ...

Mountain bikers warm by the fire at Lairig Leacach Bothy, after setting up camp for the night. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian Scotland’s newly reopened mountain bothies are shining examples of ...