Reekie Linn

There is nothing at Bridge of Craigisla to suggest what lies a five-minute walk beyond the little car park. Then the ground opens into a wooded gorge and the River Isla throws itself off two ledges, six metres and eighteen, into a dark pool far below. In spate the drops merge into one twenty-four-metre curtain and the spray rises in a cloud, which is how the fall got its name: reekie, meaning smoking. A viewpoint stands on the canyon rim some forty-five metres above the water, unprotected in places and best treated with respect. Autumn rain and autumn colour arrive together, and the walk is at its most dramatic then.

One of Scotland's most dramatic waterfalls hidden a few minutes from a minor Angus road, and far less visited than its scale deserves. A natural feature of real theatre.

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