Ayrshire

Ayrshire

Ayrshire is a registration county, and former administrative county in south-west Scotland, United Kingdom, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine. The town of Troon on the coast has hosted the British Open Golf Championship twice in the...

's highest waterfall (Approx. 60 – 70 ft high), The Spout of Garnock or Garnock Spout http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/475878, tumbles noisily over a rocky and a somewhat steep downward slope, forming a wild and lonely furious rush of water which is particularly impressive when in spate. It is not the source of the River Garnock

River Garnock

The River Garnock, the smallest of Ayrshire's six principal rivers, has its source on the southerly side of the Hill of Stake in the heart of the Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park. About a mile and a half south of this starting point the untested stream tumbles over the Spout of Garnock, the highest...

, as is sometimes said, but is located about a mile and a half from the rivers birth. The hike to the falls is not an easy one, but if well planned is rewarding, and will take you past the Murchan Spout http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/475938 which is also worth a visit.