Events
We have put together an extensive list of events for 2016. These will hopefully help you with a trip idea or let you know what is on when you are on your campervan holiday. If there are any we have missed, please let us know so we can add it!
Please click on the event and it will take you to a website about the event for more information.
January 2018
20th – 30th - Big Burns Supper – Dumfries
23rd – 24th – Aviemore Sled Dog Rally – Aviemore
26th January - Up Helly Aa – Shetland
15th – 30th – Celtic Connections – Glasgow
23rd-24th – Strath Puffer – Strathpeffer
8th – 9th – Scalloway Fire Festival – Shetland
11th – Burning of the clavie – Moray
TBA - Inverness Fiddlers' Rally
February
21st - 25th February – Fort William Mountain Festival
10th February – Snowman Rally
24th Feb – 7th March – Inverness Music Festival
March
1st – 4th March – Ullapool Dance festival
11th March – Inverness Half Marathon
30th – 31st Inverness BID Easter Egg Hunt
April
1st April – Scone Palace Easter Weekend
8th – 10th Orkney Ceilidh Weekend
10th April - Glenlivet 10k Road Race
10th – 15th – Walk Islay
22nd – 24th – Mull Music Festival
24th Loch Ness Etape race
28th April – 1st May – Shetland Folk Festival
28th April – 2nd May Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival
May
1st – Selkirk Mountain Bike marathon
2nd – 7th Scottich 6 day trials
7th – Inverness Classic vehicle show
7th – Spirit of Stirling Whisky Festival
13th – 16th Arran Mountain Festival
14th - King of the mountains sportive
14th – 15th – Loch Fyne Food fair
14th – 30th Tweedlove Bike Festival
15th – 21st Cape Wrath Challenge
15th - Gordon Castle Highland Games & country fair
19th – 29th Perth Festival of the arts
20th – 28th Islay Festival of music and Malt
21st – 28th Wild Lochaber Festival
21st May 2016 World Whisky Day
26th – 29th - Orkney Folk Festival
28th May - Stornaway Half marathon
28th – 29th - Blair Atholl gathering & Highland Games
29th - Mull of Kintyre Half marathon
June
3rd & 4th Brew at the Bog
4th – Benbecula half marathon
4th- 5th Mountain Bike world cup
4th – Taste of Grampian
5th – 7th Arran folk festival
11th – 12th Caledonian Challenge
18th - Rod Stewart @ Caley Stadium
23rd -26th Royal Highland Show
25th - The Celtman Race
11th Isle of Skye Half
20th St Magnus festival Orkney
18th -19th Dufftown & Keith 1940 railway weekend
Date TBC Cairngorm Mountain walking festival
July
1-3rd Scottish Game fair
2nd – Isle of Harris Half marathon
2nd Gairloch Highland Gathering
7th-10th Scottish Open
7th – 11th Stonehaven folk festival
13th – 16th Hebridean Celtic festival
16th Inverness Highland Games and Gala
29th – 31st Speyfest, Fochabers
30th Nairn Show
15th-16th Caithness Agricultural show
16th Loch Lomand Highland games
16th Lochcarron Highland Games
19th Inverarary Traditional Highland Games
21st Mull Highland Games
22nd-23rd Wickerman festival
23rd Sutherland Show
29th Durness Highland Gathering
29th-30th Glengarry Highland Games
30th Halkirk Highland Games, Caithness
31st July – 1st Aug Turriff Show
August
2nd – 3rd Skye Highland Games
4th – 6th Belladrum Tartan Heart festival
3rd – 4th Black Isle Show
3rd - Arran Show
5th – 6th Perth Agricultural show
5th-6th Moy Highland field and Sports fair
5th Dornoch Highland Gathering
6th Strathpeffer Highland Gathering
7th – 8th August Keith Show
11th Grantown show
11th Islay Show
13th Orkney County Show
14th Perth Highland Games
20th Glenfinnan gathering & highland games
20th Nairn Highland Games
20th Groove Loch Ness
25th-28th Blair atholl Horse Trials
25th Oban Highland Games
26th – 29th Thunder in the glens
27th Lairg Crofters show
27th Glenurquhart highland games
30th Aug – 4th Sept Tomintoul & Glenlivet walking festival
Northhop Inverness date TBC
September
2nd – 10th Sept Blas festival
3rd Ben Nevis Race
9th – 11th Inverness Military Tattoo
23rd-26th Speyside autumn Whisky festival
25th Loch Ness marathon
30th sept – 1st Oct Loopallu Festival
October
1st-16th Highland Archaeology festival
6th – 10th Shetland accordion and fiddle festival
7th-9th Ullapool guitar festival
8th World porridge making championship
13th-15th Street theatre festival
28th-29th Halloween show
October – The enchanted forest
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