Plodda Falls

Five kilometres of forest track beyond the Victorian estate village of Tomich, the Abhainn Deabhag gathers itself and steps off a cliff. Plodda Falls drops forty-six metres in a single plume through some of the tallest Douglas firs in Britain, planted when Lord Tweedmouth kept the Guisachan estate, and the modern viewing platform — successor to the iron footbridge he threw across the lip in 1880 — puts you directly above the fall, water vanishing beneath your feet into the gorge. A short woodland circuit descends to the plunge pool for the full-height view. It is a five-minute walk to a sight worth a five-hour drive.

One of Scotland's tallest and most dramatic accessible waterfalls, hidden in ancient fir forest well off the North Coast 500 conveyor — a natural feature of the first rank.

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