🌳 Outdoor🌲 Woodland🏖 Beach🆓 Free entry
What’s there
- Paid parking
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
The main car park has charges: £2 for up to 1 hour, £2.50 for up to 3 hours, £4 all day, £12 for minibus/coach all day. Blue Badge holders park free. Long access road which can be uneven and pot holed depending on the level of forestry operation.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Stretching from Nairn to Findhorn Bay, Culbin Forest is a vast coastal forest managed by Forestry and Land Scotland. It features an extensive network of gravel tracks ideal for walking, cycling and family days out. The Hill 99 Trail at Wellhill car park is the perfect introduction, winding through sandy pinewoods and mossy glades to a spectacular wooden viewpoint tower offering 360-degree views over the treetops to the Moray Firth coast. For a shorter, gentler option, the Gravel Pit Ponds Trail offers well-surfaced paths suitable for pushchairs and wheelchairs. The shoreline along the forest's edge is part of an RSPB reserve, a vital feeding ground for wading birds, and you may spot ospreys and seals at Findhorn Bay. Other highlights include Dragonfly Pond, Buckie Loch, and the fascinating buried trees of Lady Culbin's dunes.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Hair bobbles
- Gloves
- Tissues
- Audiobook or story CD
- Travel games
- Bum bag
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