Sandwood Bay

Sandwood Bay is a natural bay in Sutherland, on the far north-west coast of mainland Scotland. It is best known for its mile-long beach and Am Buachaille, a dramatic sea stack, and lies about five miles south of Cape Wrath. Behind the bay’s large dunes stretches Sandwood Loch, a freshwater loch full of brown trout.

Though remote, with no road access, the bay is easily reached by a four-mile, well-trodden and fairly flat path from the gravel car park at the hamlet of Blairmore. Sandwood Bay is part of the Sandwood Estate, run by the John Muir Trust, and the beach is considered one of the cleanest and most unspoilt in the whole of mainland Britain.