Walking on Arran Guide Book

This guidebook for the Isle of Arran features 45 different walking routes, ranging from easy 5km (3 miles) nature trails to more challenging mountain routes that can cover up to 22km and include scrambles. The guidebook offers comprehensive coverage of Arran, including an ascent of Goatfell and nearby Holy Isle. Additionally, the guidebook includes information about the 110km Arran Coastal Way, which is one of Scotland's Great Trails.

• Seasonality: Arran is good for walking year-round: be aware that the island's population triples in the peak summer period, and deer stalking takes place from mid-August to mid-October.

• Centres featured: Brodick; Lamlash; Lochranza

• Difficulty: This guide includes a few easy, waymarked forest trails and low-level walks and a dozen or so moderate glen and hill walks. The rest of the routes require more effort, involving higher mountains, sometimes with hands-on scrambling. There are roads and forest tracks, hill tracks and paths, but many routes also cross pathless slopes and traverse rocky mountain ridges.

• Must-sees featured: Goatfell, Holy Isle, Beinn Nuis, Beinn Tarsuinn, the Sannox Horseshoe, Glen Rosa and the Cock of Arran.