Sands Caravan and Camping Park

Gairloch, Highlands

5.0 stars out of 2 review

Open from
31st March to 27th October (approx.)
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Location
Gairloch, Highlands, Scotland, IV21 2DL
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Last updated
28 Apr 2024
You enquired
Yes
Motorhome pitches
(£27.00)
Yes
Touring pitches
(£27.00)
Yes
Tent pitches
(£27.00)
Yes
Serviced pitches
(£34.00)
Yes
Seasonal pitches
Pitches
Motorhome pitches£27.00
Touring pitches£27.00
Tent pitches£27.00
Serviced pitches£34.00
Seasonal pitches

Glamping
Camping pods12£70.00-£105.00
To rent
Holiday homes5£680.00-£940.00

Situated on the beautiful West Coast of Scotland, we are just a few miles from the internationally renowned Inverewe Gardens.

With spectacular views across the Isle of Skye and the Outer Hebrides, Gairloch has a great deal to offer the tourist. We are situated beside our own south-west facing beach with unspoiled golden sand and sparkling clear water.

More about the parkHide
  • Child friendly holiday homes
  • Disabled access
  • Family park
  • Pets allowed
  • 12 Camping pods
  • Children's play area(s)
  • Chemical disposal point
  • 150 Electric hook-ups
  • Laundry
  • LPG stockist
  • 3 Sanitary block(s)
  • Shop
  • Take away food
  • Visitor parking
  • Washing up facilities
  • Wireless internet
  • Restaurant
  • Cafe
  • Breaks near water
  • Coastal breaks
  • Hiking breaks
  • Walking breaks
  • Wildlife

Covered indoor cooking and eating area
Boat launching slip
Purpose built motorhome service point
TV/games room
Dog walking area
EV charging point

Location


Sands Caravan and Camping Park (www)

Wester Ross
Highlands, Scotland
United Kingdom
IV21 2DL

Directions

Take the A832 to Gairloch. at Gairloch turn onto the B8021 to Melvaig, 4miles along this road will bring you to Sands Holiday Centre

Nearby attractions

  • Beach
  • Boat launch
  • Fishing
  • Golf
  • Horse riding holidays
  • Sailing
  • Swimming (Indoor)
  • Swimming (Outdoor)
  • Tennis
  • Water Sports
  • Internet Access
  • Games Room
  • TV Room
  • Leisure Centre

The Gairloch area has many sites of historical interest and our award winning museum explores the area’s history with exhibits including a croft house interior, a replica of a Highland shop and Rua Reidh Lighthouse’s original lens. In nearby Sheildaig, the Fairy Lochs walk visits a memorial to a crashed WW2 bomber plane.

The beautiful Loch Maree has many tales and legends surrounding it, and is rumoured to have been a site of importance for Saint Columba. If you visit Isle Maree you can see an ancient wishing tree and visit the graves of a prince and princess, but make sure you keep an eye out for Muc-sheilch, the loch's very own monster!

For rainy days there are plenty of indoor activities too: Gairloch Leisure Centre offers a range of activities, including archery, a climbing wall and badminton, and Poolewe Swimming Pool is only a 15-minute drive away. The Perfume Studio at Mellon Charles is Scotland’s only working perfume studio, and also has a cafe, gift shop and excellent views of Loch and Isle Ewe.

The Gairloch area is home to the world famous Inverewe Gardens, established by Osgood MacKenzie in 1862. Famed for its exotic plants from countries as diverse as Tasmania, New Zealand and Chile, the gardens also have an onsite cafe, short walks and a bird hide.

Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve, Scotland’s oldest reserve established in 1951, offers woodland trails and mountainous walks, all situated within the ancient pine forests surrounding Loch Maree. Famed for its wildlife you’re likely to spot deer, dragon flies, golden eagles and crossbills, or you may even see a pair nesting sea eagles!

The area surrounding Sands offers many varied and unique activities for the whole family. On the first Saturday of the Highland school holidays every year Sands hosts the Gairloch Highland Gathering. With events including a hill race, heavy athletics and a pet parade, as well as a family ceilidh on the Friday evening and over 18's dance on the Saturday evening, there’s something to entertain all members of the family!

Gairloch Harbour is home to many whale watching cruises that can take you around Gairloch Bay and into the Minch to spot whales, dolphins, porpoises and even basking sharks. In nearby Badachro there are Shellfish Safaris where you can reel in your own creel full of lobsters and prawns, or why not take one of the many fishing trips from the harbour.

The beautiful Flowerdale Estate, home to the MacKenzies of Gairloch, has a spectacular waterfall, an 18th-century house and plenty of exhilarating walks to suits all ages and abilities. Flowerdale also has a Victorian Ice House, one of the oldest barns in Scotland and a memorial to Gairloch’s Blind Piper.

Gairloch also has a 9-hole golf course which is open all year round and welcomes visitors.

Gairloch Trekking Centre, where beginners and more experienced riders can explore the stunning landscape and beach on horseback or improve their riding skills with lessons, has now been relocated to Red Point.

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worcester

5.0 stars

This is a fantastic site!

In the village of Big Sand just along the coast from Gairloch it is situated next to a fantastic huge, clean, white sandy beach. Some of it is behind the Dunes (and therefore sheltered in parts)whilst some of it is on higher grounds and therfore you can enjoy the brilliant views out to Skye and on clear days the outer hebrides. Massive site.

Facilities are excellent, park area for children...pigs to feed also! Large shop, bike hire, canoe hire.

Sports centre in Gairloch, swimming pool approx 5 miles away, pony trekking, boat trips (whale watching etc)....all close by.

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