East Highlands & Cairngorms

Mountain hiking routes on Scotland's Eastern Highlands

The finest hill-walking and scrambling routes in the mountains of the Cairngorms and Scotland's Eastern Highlands.

Hill walking routes in the Eastern Highlands

Hill walking routes in the Cairngorms and Eastern Highlands of Scotland are listed below starting from south and working northwards.

Nearer the bottom of the page is a table to help you find routes by distance, ascent, difficulty of terrain, quality of scenery and even by Munro and Corbett count.

1 - Atholl, Tilt and Bruar
	Fine tracks reach Beinn a'Ghlo and its neighbours. Navigation skills are tested on the summit plateaus
2 - Glen Ey
	A cycle down to Altanour Lodge ruin from where a fine Munro-bagging circuit begins.
3 - Glenshee
	9 Munros above the Glenshee Ski Centre will test navigation skills in mist. You could do them all as part of a hillrace !
4 - Mayar and Driesh
	With fine paths and short distance, this pair make for a good introduction to hillwalking
5 - Lochnagar and around Loch Muick
	The famed dark coire of Lochnagar is a favourite winter climbing area. Alternative includes approach from Lochallater
6 - Mount Keen and Mount Battock
	Recent path work have made access to these summits even easier. A bike is recommended for Mount Keen
7 - Above Geldie
	Above the old ruin of Geldie Lodge sit heather clad round hills. A bike is recommended for the approach
8 - Feshie
	In the heart of Rothiemurchus, heather and juniper cover the lower slopes, upper ground is flat and diffcult to navigate on in mist
9 - Braeriach and Cairn Toul group
	West of the Lairig Ghru, high plateaus will test navigation skills. Rewarding views
10 - Macdui and Cairngorm
	Vast plateaus with Artic tundra, hidden lochans, long narrow crests, dark corries and weird granite tors.
11 - Ben Avon Munro group
	Unusual summit volcanic tors sit on vast plateaux and above an area full of wildlife. Improved paths lower down make for easy access.

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Hill routes in the Cairngorms and Eastern Highlands by category

Locate routes by ascent, distance, quality of scenery, effort needed or even Munro and Corbett count using the table below.
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Mountain Area	Route	Ascent (m)	Distance (km)	Munro count	Corbett count
Glen Garry to Braemar	Atholl and Beinn a'Ghlo	2850	42	5	1
Glen Garry to Braemar	Beinn Vuirich	860	20	-	1
Glen Garry to Braemar	Beinn Dearg (A9)*	1150	30.5	1	-
Glen Garry to Braemar	Carn a'Chlamain from Glen Tilt*	1060	25	1	-
Glen Garry to Braemar	Beinn a'Ghlo	1350	20.5	3	-
Glen Garry to Braemar	Above Glen Ey*	2050	40	5	-
Glen Garry to Braemar	An Socach from Baddoch*	610	14.5	1	-
Glen Garry to Braemar	Glas Tulaichean from Spittal of Glenshee*	765	17.5	3	-
Glen Garry to Braemar	Glen Ey and Glenshee Munros	2775	43	8	-
Glenshee to Mount Keen	Glenshee Munros	1690	30	9	-
Glenshee to Mount Keen	Tolmount and Tom Buidhe with driesh and Mayar	1350	26	4	-
Glen Garry to Braemar	The Cairnwell and Carn Aosda	430	5	2	-
Cairngorms	Cairngorm	625	6.5	1	-
Glen Garry to Braemar	Carn Liath on Beinn a'Ghlo	640	8	1	-
Glenshee to Mount Keen	Mayar and driesh	900	14	2	-
Glenshee to Mount Keen	Ben Tirran	675	9	-	1
Glenshee to Mount Keen	Lochnagar and around Loch Muick	1280	26	5	1
Glenshee to Mount Keen	Above Glen Callater*	1430	35	6	-
Glenshee to Mount Keen	Lochnagar from the Allt an Dearg Waterfall	1100	22.5	6	-
Glenshee to Mount Keen	Mount Keen*	700	18	1	-
Glenshee to Mount Keen	Mount Battock*	700	15	-	1
Glen Garry to Braemar	Above Geldie Burn from Linn of Dee*	960	38	2	-
Glen Garry to Braemar	Above Geldie Burn from Glen Tilt*	1300	62	2	-
Cairngorms	Above Glen Feshie	1025	21	2	-
Cairngorms	Above Glen Einich*	1850	50	3	-
Cairngorms	Sgor Gaoith	1000	15	1	-
Cairngorms	Mullach Clach a'Bhlair*	850	24	1	-
Cairngorms	West of the Lairig Ghru from Linn of Dee*	2000	52	6	-
Cairngorms	West of the Lairig Ghru from Glenmore	2150	35	4	-
Cairngorms	Sgor Mor*	525	19	-	1
Cairngorms	Cairngorm and Macdui Munro group	2725	48	6	-
Cairngorms	Bynack More from Glenmore*	850	22	1	-
Cairngorms	Ben Avon and neighbours*	1740	35	4	-
Cairngorms	Ben Avon and Beinn a'Bhuird from Invercauld*	1500	37	2	-
Cairngorms	Beinn a'Chaorainn and Beinn Bhreac from Derry Lodge *	1000	29	2	-
Cairngorms	Carn Liath, Culardoch and Ben Avon*	1940	42.5	1	2
Cairngorms	Geal Charn (Abernethy)	600	16	-	1
Cairngorms	The Lecht Corbetts	775	17.5	-	2
Cairngorms	Brown Cow Hill	550	15	-	1
Cairngorms	Corryhabbie Hill	500	10	-	1
Cairngorms	Ben Rinnes	575	7	-	1
Cairngorms	Ben Rinnes Hill Race route	1550	22	-	1
Cairngorms	Meall a'Bhuachaille	525	9	-	1

+1: path all the way, 2-3: paths most of the way and mainly grass, 4-5: grass with some boulders and steep ground, 6-7: fair amount of scree and boulders
8: a few sections of rock clambering, 9: tricky sections of scrambling and exposure, 10: very exposed, technical scrambling, climbing and ropework required

* there are tracks decent enough on these routes to enable cycling

Routes without links are under construction and will be on website soon.