Arthur's Seat
Arthur's Seat Reviews
 Jul 05, 2007
On a clear day this hike up a cliff has the best view of Edinburgh, the North Sea and the countryside. The hike isn't too hard either and it's a great way to get some exercise while on vacation. Ask any cab driver in Edinburgh and they can take you right to the bottom of the cliff.
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Arthur's Seat Mar 01, 2006
Free... except for the bus ride! Can't remember which one though. Sorry!
Anybody going to Edinburgh must climb Arthur's Seat! Right in the middle od the city, the hike is pleasant, not too difficult and the view at the top is simply stunning! You can see everything from there. Really, if you have an afternoon free go and do it. You won't be disappointed. Promise!  Part of the Edinburgh : First contact with Europe travel blog
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Jul 04, 2003 I found that hiking Arthur’s Seat was one of the best attractions of Edinburgh and was astonished you could make such a splendid ramble starting on foot from your hotel in the heart of the city. You can’t miss the Seat, the highest of Edinburgh’s hills by a considerable margin…just head for Holyrood at the southern end of the Royal Mile to find the trailhead.
Turn right into Holyrood Park and the pathway is obvious, although I don’t recall and signs letting you know this was the way. You ascend some stairs and soon encounter a very broad walking track which is “Radical Road”, named for the group of workers hired by Sir Walter Scott to construct the path in the 1820’s (they had all been fired from their jobs for exhibiting radical politics!). This easy trail curves around the Salisbury Crags…pretty cliffs lining your way.
There are several options presented as Radical Road concludes, and we took the relatively rigorous (although this is by no means a strenuous endeavor) Piper’s Walk to the top, which is a bit difficult to identify and we made a few wrong guesses before getting the right trail. Again, no signage or trail markers, but the goal is obvious and we quickly recognized our misses.
The most surprising thing for us when we reached the summit was how many people were there…until we realized it has road access and you can simply drive up! We enjoyed our picnic lunch in the company of others, many in business casual attire which suggested this was a lunch spot for the Edinburgh natives. The sights here are awesome. Edinburgh sprawls out before you and you have expansive views of the Firth of Forth at the same time. We continued our journey down the other side to Duddingston and celebrated our conquest with a pint at the Sheep’s Heid Inn…a tavern that has been serving since the fourteenth century! Our circuitous route also led past the Duddingston Loch and Bird Sanctuary, which is gorgeous and reputed to be a fun visit, but it wasn’t open when we ambled by.
If you need to escape the crowds and stretch your legs, scaling Arthur’s Seat is the ticket! Part of the Scotland, 2003 travel blog |
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Arthur's Seat Blogs
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Feb 25, 2008
…drinks and then a few more, all of a sudden it was 5am and definitely time for bed if we were going to have any hope of making it up Arthurs Seat alive in the morning.
Got up early ready to climb and conquer the 251 metre high peak of Arthurs Seat. Of course it was absolutely freezing, and the wind was outrageously strong. But 3 of us braved it anyway, you kind of have… Where else to drink Scotch??? |
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Jul 03, 2003
Arthur’s Seat. It is so very cool to begin a hike from the downtown of a major city…and Arthur’s Seat does not disappoint. Starts out along an actual road --- but it’s Radical Road, constructed by imprisoned Scottish ‘radicals’ (folks… Conclusion |
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Jul 16, 2006
Arthur’s
Seat. Parts of the trail were a bit
sketchy and narrow. With thoughts of
the fallen hiker, I proceeded up the trail to the peak. I arrived safely at the
top of Arthur’s Seat and climbed up the last of the volcanic… Edinburgh - Day 12 |
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Oct 03, 2008
On Friday, we decided the best thing to do would be to go for a walk across Arthur's Seat. Arthur's Seat, for those of you less familiar with Edinburgh, is the large extinct Volcano you can see fromthe rest of the city. It's shaped a bit like a lion. Having patiently explained to Chris that we weren… Running away part 1 |
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Jul 01, 2008
Arthur's Seat.
Arthur's Seat was the great hangover cure of my university career. Trust me. By the time you've hauled yourself, shivering and head pounding, to the top of the hill, the acohol gives up its evil hold. It worked… Tuesday |
