Print pageFacilities
Facilities
- Car park
: Main car park and smaller parking area by the lighthouse for less mobile visitors .
- Group bookings accepted
- Guided walks available
- Good for walking
- Pushchair friendly
Viewing points
There are three viewing platforms around the reserve.
Nature trails
From the main car park, walk up to the lighthouse (about 0.3 mile/0.5 km). The path is too steep for wheelchair users who can, instead, drive to the lighthouse where there is a small parking bay and suitable viewing area at the top of the cliff. Visitors walking up to the lighthouse from the car park can view cliff nesting birds from behind any of the stone dykes along the way.
Educational facilities
Open your eyes and ears to the natural world with a visit to one of Shetland's RSPB reserves. A summer programme 'Living Classrooms' offers topics designs for children from P1-P7. Can be adapted by request to suit secondary pupils.
Sumburgh Head nature reserve is a spectacular place to see nesting seabirds: fulmars on the cliff ledges, puffins perched outside their burrows and guillemots clustered on the rocks. You can visit any weekday during the summer term.
Most visits to Sumburgh Head last about two hours, but please contact the reserve for more details.