This guidebook describes 45 walks on the popular and accessible Isle of Arran. The routes are between 3 and 19 miles (5-31km) in length, ranging in difficulty from easy, waymarked forest trails to more arduous mountain walks, exposed ridge routes and scrambles.

The book includes both linear and circular walks, and there are opportunities to link routes together and create longer walks across the length and breadth of the island. Also included is a summary of the 110km Arran Coastal Way. Highlights include Goatfell, Beinn Nuis, Beinn Tarsuinn, the Sannox Horseshoe, Glen Rosa, the Cock of Arran and nearby Holy Isle.

All the routes are clearly described and illustrated with OS 1:50,000 mapping, with extra notes revealing the archaeology, history and natural wonders of the island. The guide includes background information on travel to Arran, public transport, and a Gaelic/English glossary. There's something here to suit walkers of all fitness levels and abilities.

Often described as 'Scotland in miniature', Arran boasts a rich variety of landscapes, with mountains, coast, moorland and forest, and the walks have been chosen to showcase this diversity. For an island, travel to and from Arran is remarkably easy: it is not far from Glasgow, from where onward connections are swift and frequent.

The walks

Walk 1 Goatfell and Brodick

Walk 2 Brodick Castle Forest Trails

Walk 3 Brodick and the Clauchland Hills

Walk 4 Sithein and Glen Cloy

Walk 5 Sithein and The Ross

Walk 6 Holy Isle from Lamlash

Walk 7 Tighvein and Monamore Glen

Walk 8 Glenashdale and Urie Loch

Walk 9 Glenashdale Falls and Giants’ Graves

Walk 10 Eas Mòr and Loch Garbad

Walk 11 Kilmory Forest Circuit

Walk 12 The Ross and Cnoc a’ Chapuill

Walk 13 Shiskine and Clauchan Glen

Walk 14 Bridgend and Ard Bheinn

Walk 15 The String and Beinn Bhreac

Walk 16 Machrie Moor Stone Circle

Walk 17 Dougarie and Beinn Nuis

Walk 18 Dougarie and Sail Chalmadale

Walk 19 Imachar and Mullach Buidhe

Walk 20 Pirnmill and Mullach Buidhe

Walk 21 Coire-Fhionn Lochan

Walk 22 Catacol and Meall nan Damh

Walk 23 Catacol and Beinn Bhreac

Walk 24 Catacol and Beinn Tarsuinn

Walk 25 Lochranza and Meall Mòr

Walk 26 Gleann Easan Biorach

Walk 27 Lochranza and Cock of Arran

Walk 28 Lochranza and Sail an Im

Walk 29 North Glen Sannox Horseshoe

Walk 30 Glen Sannox Horseshoe

Walk 31 Glen Sannox to Glen Rosa

Walk 32 Sannox, Goatfell and Corrie

Walk 33 Glen Rosa and Beinn Tarsuinn

Walk 34 Western Glen Rosa

Walk 35 Eastern Glen Rosa

Arran Coastal Way

Walk 36 Brodick to Sannox (forest)

Walk 37 Brodick to Sannox (mountain)

Walk 38 Sannox to Lochranza

Walk 39 Lochranza to Imachar

Walk 40 Imachar to Blackwaterfoot

Walk 41 Blackwaterfoot to Lagg (coastal)

Walk 42 Blackwaterfoot to Lagg (inland)

Walk 43 Lagg to Whiting Bay (coastal)

Walk 44 Lagg to Whiting Bay (inland)

Walk 45 Whiting Bay to Brodick