Outdoor

Flotterstone Information Centre is located behind the Flotterstone Inn, off the A702, on the Eastern Side of the Regional Park.

Central, pedestrianised street between George Street and Princes Street that is the location for street markets throughout the year.

Edinburgh's Ice Rink (aka Winter Wonderland) is a temporary, outdoor ice rink set up in East Princes Street Gardens, during the course of Edinburgh's Christmas festivities (24th November - 3 January 2011, from 10am).

The ground floor of Holyrood Lodge is a public InformationCentre for Holyrood Park.

Princes Street Gardens is a great swathe of greenspace that runs along the length of Princes Street in Central Edinburgh. The gardens, situated directly under Edinburgh Castle, in what was formerly the Nor' Loch, are intersected by a main road on the Mound and the mainline railway connecting to Waverley Station in the city centre.

Educational facility and home of the Historic Scotland Ranger service.

Johnston Terrace Garden is tucked away at the top of the Patrick Geddes steps which run between Johnston Terrance and the Grassmarket, just 50 m from Edinburgh Castle Esplanade.

Around 2.4 hectares, a quarter of Inverleith Park, has been converted into allotments.

Popular sandy beach to the North East of the city. Well connected by bike paths. When the tide is out you can walk to Cramond Island.

Long, curving, sandy beach popular with surfers and walkers.

Probably the most spectacular beach in East Lothian, Gullane is a long, sandy beach with an extensive, dune system covered in grass and buckthorn bush, within which you can shield yourself from the

Long sandy and rocky beach near the small town of Longniddry just South East of Edinburgh. Popular with walkers, windsurfers and canoeists. Close to nature reserves with birds feeding at low tide.

A windswept sandy beach just off the main road (B1348) to the South East of Edinburgh and downstream from Cockenzie power station.

Much-loved working urban farm with lambs, pigs, chickens, quails, and a variety of crops.

The main astronomy observatory, in the South of Edinburgh, distinguished by its distinctive copper domes atop Blackford Hill.

Large open, cobbled square in Old Town conservation area on the Royal Mile.  Parliament Square is named after parliament house which was built in 1641 and was used by the Scottish parliament u

The 11 mile by 6 mile Pentland Hills Regional Park, established on 22 October 1984, stretches from the City Bypass in the North (the southernwest reaches of Edinburgh), to the Borders Region in the

Modern wildlife observation and educational building on a rocky outcrop overlooking the windswept, sandy beaches of North Berwick. The charity has interactive cameras, boat trips to nearby island bird sancturies, a gift Shop and Cafe.

One of the chief attractions of Portobello, to the East of Edinburgh City Centre, is the sea and a wide sandy beach - with a long, classic Victorian promenade and old-world waterfront that harks b

A central spot in the 70-acre Royal Botanic Garden. The lawn is in front of the terrace cafe, and Inverleith House. Two famous art commissions are installed near the lawn: eco-artist Andy Goldworthy's trademark slate cone and Ian Hamilton Finlay's neo-classical sundial which includes the Little Sparta artist's concrete poetry "“Umbra solis non aeris” ("The shadow of the sun and not of the bronze").