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St Kilda

With its dramatic landscape of sheer cliffs and sea stacks, St Kilda feels like a place perched on the edge of the world. It is Europe’s most important seabird breeding area and includes the world’s largest northern gannet colony. St Kilda has an enigmatic past and the people who lived here had a unique lifestyle, wholly dependent on the riches of the seas around Britain’s most remote point.

• Best time to visit

  May to July for seabirds and best weather.

• Getting there

  Fifty miles west of the Outer Hebrides, only by cruise ships or charter boats from Oban, Miavaig (Lewis), Leverburgh (Harris) and Berneray (North Uist).*
  
  *Access to islands other than Hirta is by prior arrangement with the seasonal warden.
  

• Visitor facilities

  Seasonal warden. Small camp site. Regular NTS work parties. Booklet and leaflet. Ground very rugged and sea conditions often rough. No dogs please, to prevent risk of infection to Soay sheep.
  

• Contact

  NTS, Balnain House, 40 Huntly Street, Inverness IV3 5HR. Tel: 0844 4932237.
  
  
  

• Managed by

  The National Trust for Scotland