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first appeared on PetHelpful on Jun 3, 2025Across abandoned expanses of Scotland’s wildest terrain, ancient footpaths chart a nearly forgotten history: Hundreds of mourners trudging from coasts and valleys, shouldering corpses in caskets for many miles. Over tall mountains, through rivers and woodlands, never letting the body touch the ground. Steeped in premonitions and superstition, these treks were a rural culture’s oldest death rites. Now, they’re some of the most unique hikes you can take.

Corpse, or coffin roads, were used throughout the Scottish Highlands and Islands to carry caskets on foot from the remotest places once populated by thousands, to cemeteries with burial rites.by Ian Bradley explains the centuries-old folk practices and lore associated with these well-trod trails in the West Highlands and Hebrides, which differentiate them from similar paths found throughout the United Kingdom.Bradley describes multi-day wakes turning “raucous and exuberant,” with whisky as an entire community prepared for a funeral procession of epic proportions. Groups of women skilled at keening crooned over the body, often following behind as the men set off, several at a time hoisting a heavy casket shoulder-high. They’d rest and change bearers often, propping the coffin on piles of stones called cairns, which can still be found in many uninhabited places.

Cairns were part of a series of rituals to prevent the dead from returning home, like traveling in winding routes to confuse the spirit, through water where it couldn’t follow; and the body’s feet pointed towards the burial site. These practices, Bradley says, initiated grieving in a community-led pilgrimage of gradual transition for both the living and the dead.ScotWays, a charity maintaining Scotland’s rights of public access, details how to find several coffin roads in its guidebook,

. Volunteer director Tim Simons says it’s difficult to estimate how many existed. Separate from other paths traveled in daily life, used only to usher coffins, many are lost to living memory.

“Quite a few will have fallen out of use over 100 years ago,” Simons says, but those that remain, are an important part of the country’s cultural heritage, well worth exploring. “The more people travel [here],” he continues, “the busier it gets, but these routes are still relatively quiet. You can often do one and not see a single soul all day.”At the start of the study, participants ranged in age from 45 to 75.

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