The alternative Scottish road trip you need to try this summer
Kintyre’s sublime new road trip rivals the North Coast 500
The Kintyre 66 passes iconic spots like Westport Beach in Campbeltown
Credit: Raymond Hosie
Here’s a pop quiz question for you: apart from the obvious, what do Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and Jack Bruce of 1960s Brit supergroup Cream have in common? OK, I’ll tell you. Believe it or not, they all wanted a piece of Kintyre.
On this remote Scottish peninsula, you hear so many stories about the area’s rock-star farmers and wannabe lairds that it almost becomes a running joke. Sir Paul owns High Park Farm above Campbeltown, Jack once lorded over the privately-run Sanda Island, and Sir Mick failed in an attempt to buy the Isle of Gigha. You could say Kintyre has that kind of effect on people.
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It has been devised as a way for visitors to leisurely explore the whole area, rather than just one side of the peninsula as has typically been the way in recent years.
Niall Macalister Hall, chairman of the Kintyre and Gigha Marketing Group, said: Up until now, the majority of visitors would tend to go to Tarbert and not much further south, and there are so many untapped and unspoiled places to discover once here. We see this as quite the opposite of the NC500 in that we don’t see this as a route to be ‘bagged’, and in fact we encourage travellers to take in the many trails, coastlines, walks, places to visit - and of course stay.”