Places of interest:

• Caerlaverock Castle - Historic Scotland
• Caerlaverock NNR - National Nature Reserve
• Cardoness Castle
• Cream o' Galloway
• Corsewall Lighthouse, privately owned
• HM Factory, Gretna, Eastriggs - site of a munitions factory during the World War I
• Drumlanrig Castle
• Dunragit
• Galloway Forest Park, Forestry Commission
• Galloway Hydro Electric Scheme, Scottish Power
• Glenlair - home of 19th century physicist James Clerk Maxwell
• Glenluce Abbey
• Isle of Whithorn Castle
• Kenmure Castle - a seat of the Clan Gordon
• Loch Ken
• MacLellan's Castle, Kirkcudbright
• Mull of Galloway - RSPB/South Rhins Community Development Trust
• Motte of Urr
• Ruthwell Cross
• Samye Ling Tibetan Monastery
• Southern Upland Way - long distance footpath
• Sweetheart Abbey, New Abbey
• Threave Castle
• WWT Caerlaverock - a reserve of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust