Scourie to Dunnet - How long to tow?

We broke the journey and I'd recommend doing just that. Journeys take longer on those roads. It might only be 26-28 miles from Scourie to Durness but it's a very scenic route and worth taking your time to look around. Sango Sands at Durness is a perfectly good site and the scenery is terrific. 

Similarly, the route from Durness to Dunnet Bay via Tongue is scenic and not a journey to rush. We broke that trip by stopping at Altnaharra.

Rather than the site at Durness, which we have also stopped at, there is a nice CL at Laid, half way down the west side of Loch Eribol. It has EHU available and toilets attached to a cafe, that are available 24/7. It is about 34 miles from Scourie and 71 from Dunnet. The whole journey is certainly doable in a day, but as TW says the journey will take longer than normal.

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I tried reporting it earlier, Steve, but guess what appeared when I hit the report button 

Pretty  Good  advice  from  a  pair  of  Well  Travelled  CTers,  if  I  dare  say  it  !!

You may, indeed, ABM. I suspect you know the area as well as, or better than, most of us.

It's a place for taking your time and drinking in the scenery.

Thank you all - much to help us here. And enough to tell us that we need to make the whole trip all over again some time and stop in different places, and take more time...  where was home, again?

You're welcome, HH. It really is a trip worth doing again at your leisure. You'll see what I mean when you get there.

Definitely agree, that corner of the country has some of the best scenery in Scotland and we have spent many happy holidays in the area. 

If you stop off at Durness the John Lennon memorial is worth a visit. Between the age of 9 and 16 he spent his holidays with cousins at Sangomore

JOHN LENNON MEMORIAL

I've just posted separately our thanks to all for so much helpful advice which made such a difference to this trip. To report on this particular stage - the weather on the day we moved was so foul we looked briefly at the doubtless excellent Scourie site, what we could see of it between mist and driving rain, and moved on through a blanket of mist and more driving rain to Sango Sands, where the sun suddenly came out on the gorgeous bay there. From there, the next day gave mostly clearer weather across to Dunnett, where it was so windswept we decided to carry on down the coast to Brora after a one night stay.

The most helpful wardens at Dunnet offered to let us leave our van on the pitch for an extra hour or two - plenty of space on the site at the time -  while we visited Dunnet Head, which was so much more rewarding than John o'Groats could ever be! Truly is it said that there's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes. We wore a great deal of the right clothing on that and other days!