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
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