Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire

The city of Aberdeen and its neaighbouring coast has a vast array of walking opportunities, including many less visited gems. The city itself reveals a different aspect when explored on foot., leving time to explore buildings and sculptures usually hurried past. With so much of the county facing the North Sea, the coast offers a great selection of routes, taking in sandy dunes and rugged cliffs and natural arches, ruined castles and endless wildlfie watching spots. Inland, the fertile rolling famrland gives wayt o the foothills of the Cairngroms where heather moorland and rocky granite tors provide spectacular views over the whole county.

This guides features 40 shorer walks exploring the city, market towns, coastal villages, woods, cliffs and moors which make this area so diveerse and rewarding for the walker.