Dinosaur Footprints, Staffin

Dinosaur Footprints

Ok, so bear with us here! It might sound outlandish but incredibly, there are real dinosaur footprints that you can visit on Skye. The footprints can be hard to find as they’re often covered by seaweed or sand, but it’s well worth the effort to look for them. You can spot the footprints in the following locations:

• An Corran Beach – there are prints on the rocks near the ramp
• Score Bay – this is where the big footprints are, and these footprints are believed to be more than 150 million years old
• Brother’s Point – these were discovered in 2020 by Edinburgh researchers, and can be found on the beach (you’ll have to walk about a mile to reach the beach from the nearest parking spot).
• On the beach at An Corran, Staffin, are some remarkable footprints. They were left by a family of dinosaurs that walked across the sand here some 165 million years ago. To put that in context, the gabbro rocks of the Cuillin were formed about 60 million years ago, and they were carved by the glaciers of the last ice age on Skye just 11,000 years ago. These are very, very old footprints. To be able to see and touch them in-situ is an amazing experience. There is a sense of connection with these beings from an unimaginable distance in time.

Not only are these incredible to see, they’re totally free!