Walks you can reach from Keith by train

Recommended: A really beautiful walk. Leaves Inverurie on the quiet Old Port Road, then walkers' tracks through woodland and along the river edges of the Urie and Don (narrow, care needed near the water). Uses a farmer's tractor bridge and field-edge skirting and with well-defined farm tracks. Hillwalking boots needed for some sections. The route passes Kinkell churchyard and through farm yards (Ardmurdo, Balbithan). An optional stile route skirts fields at Breedie's Haugh near Kintore golf club instead of the road.

Time: 2h30–4h30

Warnings: Follows a busy road for a sixth of the walk. Narrow riverside paths require care; if the Urie or Don river levels are high, stay inside the fields. A narrow bridge over the Urie and the next bend need care with frequent cars in both directions.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Time: 6h–12h30

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Woodland: a third under tree cover.

Time: 6h–12h30

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Time: 6h–12h30

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A long, pleasantly rural route mostly on asphalt along quiet back roads, with forestry, heather and farmland and occasional houses. A short off-road footpath at Dyke may be wet or muddy. Passes through the restored site of Kingsteps Quarry. A bus stop at Brodie has a good service to Nairn, Inverness, Forres, Elgin and Aberdeen.

Time: 4h30–9h30

Lunch: Brodie Castle has a cafe (check opening days and times).

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Largely good off-road walking through Culloden Forest and High Wood and down the wooded valley of the River Nairn and though one section near Cawdor cannot be followed without bush-whacking.

Woodland: half under tree cover.

Time: 9h–18h30

Warnings: Between the White Bridge near Clephanton and Kilravoch Castle the route cannot be followed and requires a diversion. The riverside path down the River Nairn is unsafe when the river is high, runs very close to the water with drops of around 2m in places, and can be cut after flooding.

Walk details: Slow Ways.