{"id":27816,"date":"2025-04-17T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27816\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:07:08","slug":"stargazing-spot-an-hour-from-glasgow-among-best-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27816\/","title":{"rendered":"Stargazing spot an hour from Glasgow among best in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A STARGAZING spot located an hour from Glasgow has been named as one of the best in Scotland.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Loch Venachar in the Trossachs has Designated Dark Sky Discovery Sites on both shores with stunning reflections and views.<\/p>\n<p>Dark Sky Week will take place on April 21 to 28, giving people the perfect excuse to drive north and enjoy stargazing at the breath-taking spot which has minimal light pollution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25097660.glasgow-times-readers-tell-us-best-place-roast-dinner?rel=cl_mra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Glasgow Times readers tell us the best place for a roast dinner;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Glasgow Times readers tell us the best place for a roast dinner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The global celebration aims to raise awareness about light pollution and its negative impacts and promotes solutions to preservice dark skies.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland is home to the UK&#8217;s first Dark Sky Park, Europe&#8217;s first Dark Sky Town and Scotland&#8217;s first International Dark Sky Sanctuary making it of the best places to experience dark skies.<\/p>\n<p>Visit Scotland highlights the Isle of Rum, Tomintoul &amp; Glenlivet, Galloway Forest Park, North Ronaldsay in Orkney and Unst in Shetland as other stargazing spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A STARGAZING spot located an hour from Glasgow has been named as one of the best in Scotland.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,918,4884,16770,712,16,15,16769],"class_list":{"0":"post-27816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-light-pollution","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-visit-scotland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114353933104689039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}