Kayak camping, tides & launches: Skye, the Small Isles & Ardnamurchan

Skye, the Small Isles & Ardnamurchan: Coastal paddling with 45 campsites, 110 boat launches and 9 tide stations. See them on the map, check today's tides and wind, or, with a Coast Map Pass, download the whole region (18 MB) to your phone for trips without signal.

Campsites

From OpenStreetMap, coloured on the map by what you need before staying. 1 mention boat, canoe or kayak access (🛶). Always confirm fees, permits and closures with the operator.

Fee or reservation (12)

• Ardelve Caravan And Camping Park
• Ardnamurchan Campsite
• Barrisdale Estate Campsite
• Camping Skye
• Canna Campsite
• Garden House Camping
• Reraig caravan site
• Skye Camping And Caravanning Club
• Sligachan Campsite
• Staffin Campsite
• The Wee Campsite
• Tigh na Mara Campsite and Pods

Permit, protocol or private (1)

• Salen Bay Campsite

Fees not recorded (check locally) (22)

• Applecross Campsite
• Camus More Camping
• Camusdarach Campsite
• Gairloch Caravan & Camp Site
• Glenbrittle Campsite
• Glenshiel Campsite
• Invercaimbe Caravan and Campsite
• Kinloch Campsite
• Lochan nan Àl Campsite
• Long Beach Campsite 🛶
• Moyle Park Campsite
• Sands Caravan and Camping
• Schlafplatz wild camping
• Shieldaig Camping and Cabins
• Silversands Holiday Park, Portnaluchaig
• Sunart Camping
• Sunnyside Croft Touring Site
• Tobermory Campsite
• Torridon Camp Site
• Torvaig
• Uig Bay Campsite
• wild camping

Tide stations

Highs and lows for the next year, the 24-hour tide curve, wind and the marine forecast.

• Arisaig
• Canna
• Eigg (Galmisdale)
• Elgol (Loch Scavaig)
• Kilchoan (Ardnamurchan)
• Mallaig
• Rum (Loch Scresort)
• Tobermory
• Uig (Skye)

Boat launches

• Colbost Jetty
• Dornie Slipway
• Eigg Pier
• Ferry Slipway
• Loch Caroy Jetty
• Ord Public Slipway
• Rassay Ferry Slip

Plus 103 unnamed launches on the map.

Camping and tides in the United Kingdom

Big tides and strong tidal streams: 5 m and more in Cornwall and Pembrokeshire, with races off headlands like St Ann’s Head, Ramsey Sound and Ardnamurchan Point. The tide pages here are predicted from national tide-gauge readings at the gauges (within a few minutes) and modelled from satellite data (EOT20) between them, not official UKHO predictions: plan passages with the Admiralty tide tables and tidal stream atlases. Wild camping is legal in most of Scotland under the outdoor access code; in England and Wales ask the landowner. All the United Kingdom regions.

Download for GPS and other map apps

45 campsites and 110 boat launches as GPX (GPS units, Gaia GPS, OsmAnd) or KML (Google Earth, Google My Maps).