Whether you're a tourist in Edinburgh or a local who's here everyday, Holyrood Park is a definite must visit. It's an especially good place to go and visit if like me you have a very energetic dog; those hill climbs are enough to tire anyone out.
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Arthur's Seat is the highest point of Holyrood park, a 640 acre park located at Holyrood palace at the bottom of the Royal Mile. If you're not much of a climber then the best thing about this area is there are plenty of places to go for a walk that aren't quite as hardcore as the peaks of Arthur's Seat.
If you want to just wander around the park then it's a great place to hang out and have a picnic; there are sometimes events that take place at the park such as the children's 5k run over summer time.
If you want to just wander around the park then it's a great place to hang out and have a picnic; there are sometimes events that take place at the park such as the children's 5k run over summer time.
Just beside Arthur's Seat within the park, there is a steep cliff called Salisbury Crags. It's a grassy up hill climb that doesn't quite reach as high as the peak but is a much easier and shorter climb for anyone interested but maybe not quite up for the steeper ascent. The views that you get are still beautiful and worth a look.
There is a small parking area for anyone interested in going to the park situated right beside St Margaret's Loch. An area that used to be a boggy marshland is now a beautiful pond filled with a large duck, geese and swan population. There are benches all around this pond for anyone that's interested in just chilling out in the sunshine and watching the world go by. Just above the loch, a small climb away you will also find St Anthony's Chapel. Believed to have been built no later than the 15th century, there is not much known about the Chapel. It was thought to have been forty feet high at one point but now not much remains beyond parts of the north wall and fragmented areas of the west wall.
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If you are entering from the east end of Holyrood Park then you might come across Muschat's cairn. It's a cairn built (and then rebuilt) to commemorate the night when Nichol Muschat, a surgeon in 1720, dragged and brutally murdered his wife at a nearby spot. He was eventually tried and hanged for this crime, explaining that he did it because he simply got tired of her. Horrible Histories of Edinburgh Ladies and Gentlemen.
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Now of course if you want to go all the way to the top for the most beautiful panoramic views of Edinburgh that you can find. then there's a nice and easy pathway for you to follow. There's the path that takes you along the grassy area or you could go up the rock path to a little flat patch. This gives you some of the best views without having to worry about your footing. Then there's the rocky path straight to the top but you have to be able to keep your footing to do this area, or you might find your foot slips on the way back down again.
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There you are ladies and gents, another amazing place to visit in the wonderful city of Edinburgh.
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