It also boasts Brodick Castle, set in parkland two miles north of the town and open to visitors during the summer months. Arran Folk Festival takes place here in early June. There is also a Heritage Museum in the town. There are golf courses at Lamlash and Whiting Bay as well as at Brodick, and a twelve-hole course can be found at Blackwaterfoot. Lamlash is a town built in Edwardian style in a boulder-strewn bay.
Boat trips operate to Holy Island off the eastern coast from here.
Whiting Bay, four miles south of Lamlash, is a good place to stay and offers a base for walking the southern half of Arran. Blackwaterfoot is the typical Hebridean fishing village and a good place to escape the crowds. Arran offers good fishing and the more mountainous parts offer some of the most spectacular hill walking in Central Scotland. Beinn Tarsuinn in the west and the Goat Fell Ridge to the east of Glen Rosa are particularly so. Corrie, in the north, is a pretty seaside village and a good base for walking.