Walks & nature · North Ayrshire
Glenashdale Falls
A forty-five-metre double cascade in an Arran glen, reached past Neolithic burial cairns with Holy Isle laid out behind you.
★★★★★Gem 6/10North Ayrshire
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From the bridge at Whiting Bay a path climbs through oak and hazel alongside the Glenashdale Burn, gaining height quietly until the trees part at a viewing platform and the falls appear: a double drop of some forty-five metres, known in Gaelic as Eas a' Chrannaig. A second platform gives a different angle entirely. Loop back by way of the Giants' Graves, two chambered cairns set on a shelf above the bay, where the outlook over Whiting Bay and Holy Isle repays every step of the climb. Three miles in total, an hour and a half at a wandering pace, and one of the most rewarding short walks on Arran.
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Why Hunters selected it
Arran's finest waterfall paired with Neolithic chambered cairns and a seaward view, on a modest circular walk that most island visitors never leave the coast road to find.
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