Peak Bagging the Regions of Scotland
For the purposes of Peak Bagging, and to avoid long and unwieldy lists of hills and mountains, Scotland is traditionally divided into 27 Regions.
These regions use the natural contours of the landscape as boundaries and ignore any administrative or county boundaries.
- 1. The Firth of Clyde to Strath Tay
- 2. The River Tay to Rannoch Moor
- 3. Loch Leven to Connel Bridge, Strath of Orchy and Glen Lochy
- 4. Fort William and Loch Linnhe to Loch Ericht
- 5. The Drumochter Hills
- 6. The West Mounth - Blair Atholl to Braemar and Blairgowrie
- 7. The East Mounth - Glen Shee and Mount Keen to Montrose
- 8. The Cairngorms
- 9. Glen Roy to Monadhliath
- 10. Glen Shiel to Glenfinnan and Loch Eil
- 11. Glen Affric to Kintail
- 12. Glen Cannich to Glen Carron
- 13. The Achnashellach and Torridon Hills
- 14. Loch Maree to Loch Broom
- 15. Ullapool to The Moray Firth
- 16. Assynt and The Far North
- 17. The Isles of Mull, Rhum and Skye
- 18. Loch Sunart and Loch Shiel
- 19. Argyll, Knapdale and Kintyre
- 20. The South Western Isles
- 21. Buchan, Formartine and Strathbogie
- 22. The Shetland Islands
- 23. The Orkney Islands
- 24. The Outer Hebrides
- 25. Central Scotland
- 26. The Southern Uplands
- 27. The Scottish Borders