Lesmahagow Highland Games
Craighead Park in this South Lanarkshire village hosts Highland games that have run without interruption for well over a century, a local event that stands apart from the tourist circuit and is attended almost entirely by people who drove twenty minutes from home.
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"This small South Lanarkshire market town, known for its remarkable puppet theatre and its unusually well-preserved High Street, lights up for a December winterfest that draws visitors from across the Clyde Valley for community entertainment and a properly Scottish Christmas welcome."
Biggar Winterfest
"One of the largest Hogmanay bonfires in Scotland, lit in the heart of this Borders town every New Year's Eve."
Biggar Bonfire
"Local children race round the parish church swinging paper balls on string to chase away winter."
Whuppity Scoorie
"One of Scotland's oldest surviving civic traditions, Lanark Lanimers commemorates the riding of the town's marches each June, with a week of events building to Lanimer Day when the decorated horse parade and crowning of the Lanimer Queen fills the Royal Burgh with colour."
Lanark Lanimers
"The South Lanarkshire fruit-growing town of Carluke marks its annual summer gala with a procession, the crowning of the Queen and a community street party that has gathered the whole town together on the second Saturday of June for generations in one of Scotland's most cheerfully persistent summer traditions."
Carluke Gala Day
"Scottish fiddle supergroup Blazin' Fiddles welcomes fiddlers, guitarists and pianists to venues across this Lanarkshire town for a weekend of classes, sessions and craic."
Blazin in Biggar
"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 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
"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