Welcome to the Easter Ross Peninsula community-led tourism destination. We invite you to take some time, to slow down and stay with us. Enjoy our hospitality and become a temporary local whilst you visit!
Explore the Peninsula and find the perfect spot inland, or on one of our magnificent beaches. You can watch the Northern Lights or relax under a blanket of unlimited starry skies. If you are lucky you can hear the sounds of the Gizzen Briggs’ fairies, weaving ropes of sand across the Dornoch Firth. It is a land full of stories.
Since medieval times, Pilgrims and Kings made their way north. Today you can journey around the Peninsula and learn more about our history and heritage. You will see Pictish stones, churches, outstanding architecture and a mermaid sitting on a rock in the Seaboard Villages.
The Parish of Tain was considered a place of sanctuary from the 11th century. Today, you can find refuge all around the Peninsula in our arts, culture and amazing scenery.
The Peninsula covers three firths and offers a number of wonderful white sandy beaches. You can get back in touch with nature by exploring both on land and at sea.
Our Villages
With easy access from the A9 and only about a 40-minute journey from Inverness, on the NC500 route, our villages are the perfect base for touring anywhere in the northern Highlands.
Tain is the oldest Royal Burgh in Scotland and is steeped in history. Home to the Clan Ross Centre and the world-famous Glenmorangie whisky Company.
The village is nestled between the NC500 route, and the smaller hamlet of Fearn to the southeast. Home to Fearn Abbey, the Lamp of the North.
The village is nestled between the NC500 route, and the smaller hamlet of Fearn to the southeast. Home to Fearn Abbey, the Lamp of the North.
With a delightful sandy beach running west from this historic fishing village Portmahomack is in an idyllic location to watch the sunset.
The small fishing village faces east and is situated close to Portmahomack it is the perfect place to watch for wildlife and wait for the sun to rise.
Hilton, Balintore and Shandwick are three small pretty villages on the Moray Firth coastline, on the eastern stretch of the Peninsula, collectively known as the Seaboard villages.
On the south-east coast of the Easter Ross Peninsula lies Nigg Bay and the village of Nigg. The Bay is home to a large RSPB reserve. A ferry links the villages of Cromarty, on the Black Isle, to Nigg on the Easter Ross Peninsula.
In the heyday of the Clan Ross, Milton was a centre for oatmeal. Sat on the southern edge of the Peninsula, the area sits in one of the richest agricultural districts of Scotland.
Tain & District Development Trust
We are a community-led organisation and play a lead role in tourism in our area. We work closely with our communities, tourism businesses and regional partners to promote the Easter Ross Peninsula, as a unique tourist destination. Bringing people and places closer together, maximising community assets in order to boost the local economy, training and youth employment opportunities – creating a long-lasting legacy for the area.
The Trust was established in 2017 following a community-wide consultation that highlighted a desire from local people for a grass-roots approach towards making our community a better place to live, work and play.
We facilitate social, economic and environmental growth on the Easter Ross Peninsula.