Find The Scottish Highlands Dog Friendly Beaches

Heading to the The Scottish Highlands coast with your dog and not sure if they are allowed on any beaches?

This The Scottish Highlands list of dog friendly beaches will help in planning your next trip to the beach, beaches for dogs near The Scottish Highlands

Our 2023 The Scottish Highlands dog friendly beach guide currently has 11 The Scottish Highlands beaches listed where dogs are allowed with 1 beach that have some dog restrictions, and there are no beaches on which a full dog ban is in operation.

The Scottish Highlands Beaches allowing dogs

This list shows 11 The Scottish Highlands beaches with no dog restrictions and can be used all year.

1. Achmelvich Bay Beach, Lochinver
2. Embo Beach, Dornoch
3. Gairloch Beach, Gairloch
4. Strathy Bay Beach, Thurso
5. Thurso Bay Central Beach, Thurso
6. Red Point Beach, Gairloch
7. Gruinard Bay Beach, Gairloch
8. Rosemarkie Beach, Fortrose
9. Scourie Beach, Scourie
10. Keiss Beach, Wick
11. Reiss Beach, Wick

Note, although dogs are allowed you are expected to keep control of your dog, clean-up after them and some beaches may require you to keep them on a lead. Please check local information sites for any restrictions.

The Scottish Highlands Beaches that have dog restrictions

This list shows 1 The Scottish Highlands beaches allowing dogs but with some restrictions. These restrictions could be a time of day, restricted zones, dogs to be kept on a lead or only allowed out of season. Check our beach information page for details of the restrictions in place.

1. Sandwood Bay Beach, Kinlochbervie

The Scottish Highlands Beaches that do not allow dogs

We have no The Scottish Highlands beaches recorded that do not allow dogs at any time.

The Scottish Highlands Beaches that we have NO dog restriction information

This list shows 29 The Scottish Highlands beaches where we have no information on dog restrictions.

1. Balnakeil Bay Beach, Durness
2. Firemore Beach, Poolewe
3. Mellon Udrigle Beach, Laide
4. Sango Bay Beach, Durness
5. Shandwick Bay Beach, Tain
6. Avoch Bay Beach, Inverness
7. Brora Beach, Brora
8. Cromarty Beach, Cromarty
9. Dornoch Beach, Dornoch
10. Dornoch North Beach, Dornoch
11. Castletown Beach, Thurso
12. Dunnet Beach, Thurso
13. Torrisdale Beach, Bettyhill
14. Fortrose Beach, Fortrose
15. Big Sand Beach, Gairloch
16. Golspie Beach, Golspie
17. Loch Linnhe Beach, Fort William
18. Camusdarach Beach, Morar
19. Nairn Beach, Nairn
20. Nairn Dunes Beach, Nairn
21. Portmahomack Beach, Portmahomack
22. Oldshoremore Beach, Kinlochbervie
23. Polin Beach, Oldshoremore
24. Gills Bay Beach, Thurso
25. Farr Beach, Bettyhill
26. Loch Treaslane / Loch Snizort Beach, Aird Bernisdale
27. Helmsdale Beach, Helmsdale
28. Kearvaig Bay Beach, Durness
29. Melvich Beach, Melvich

If you have visited any of these beaches and can update us then please drop us a note on facebook.

If a The Scottish Highlands beach is not listed above then we have no information and you will have to check local beach information boards.

Note that we try to keep this dog beach information up to date but restrictions are set by local councils and occasionally we may miss a change.

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