Forres Highland Games
Grant Park in the ancient market town of Forres hosts its Highland games at the height of summer, a traditional gathering in a town that predates the Viking invasions and where the games feel genuinely embedded in the fabric of the place rather than mounted for visitors.
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"Caber-tossing and Highland dancing come to the Alice Littler Memorial Park in the heart of Speyside whisky country."
Aberlour Strathspey Highland Games
"The elegant planned town of Grantown-on-Spey in the upper Spey valley holds its annual agricultural show in August when the moors above are a week from flowering, a show that gathers the farms of Strathspey and Badenoch together for a day of livestock judging and country sports in the heart of the Cairngorms."
Grantown Show
"A burning barrel of tar is carried around this Moray fishing village to mark the old new year, a Pictish-era survival."
Burning of the Clavie
"Three days of Scottish traditional music, song, dance and verse with bothy ballads, ceilidhs and competitions fill this north-east town for its 51st year."
Keith TMSA Festival
"The self-proclaimed whisky capital of the world hosts its Highland games at Mortlach School grounds each July, where seven working distilleries are within walking distance and the smell of peat smoke is as much a part of the games as any caber."
Dufftown Highland Games
"One of the highest village games in Scotland, with heavy events and dancing in the Cairngorms."
Tomintoul Highland Games
"Traigh Farm near Arisaig holds its games with the Small Isles of Eigg, Rum and Muck shining on the horizon across the blue Sound of Arisaig, a location so extravagantly beautiful that the athletic results become almost secondary to the experience of simply being there."
Arisaig Highland Games
"Heavy events, highland dancing and pipe bands on Aboyne Green in a long-running Deeside gathering."
Aboyne Highland Games
"The northernmost Highland games in Scotland, held near John o' Groats in the lee of the Castle of Mey that the Queen Mother loved, where the Orkney Islands are visible across the Pentland Firth and the wind rarely stops long enough for the caber to fall straight."
Mey Highland Games
"The Eilan at Newtonmore in the Spey Valley hosts this village games where Badenoch and Strathspey meet, the shinty-playing heartland of the Highlands where the heavy events are contested with a seriousness and local knowledge that puts the big tourist-facing games firmly in perspective."
Newtonmore Highland Games
"Games Park in this Victorian spa village on the foot of the Ochil Hills has hosted Highland games since 1861, one of the oldest continuously running games in the world, held in a village that Victorian visitors came to for its mineral springs and where the air still seems clearer than the surrounding Forth valley."
Bridge of Allan Highland Games
"Scotland's largest two-day agricultural show, established in 1864, draws around 24,000 visitors to The Haughs in Turriff for over 1,554 competition classes spanning livestock, working dogs and vintage vehicles."
Turriff Show