The Mull of Galloway (about 20 miles away) is Scotland's Land's End. A spectacular and narrow peninsula, the Mull of Galloway is on the same latitude as Sunderland in North East England and has a lighthouse and an RSPB reserve.

The area also boasts several beautiful gardens including the Logan Royal Botanic Garden, Scotland's most exotic garden which is open to the public between March and October. Other local gardens which open to the public are: Dunskey, Glenwhan, Ardwell House and Logan House.

Also within Wigtownshire is Scotland's National Book Town at Wigtown; the birthplace of Christianity in Scotland, Whithorn; Britain's largest forest park, the Galloway Forest; Britain's largest local nature reserve, also at Wigtown, Scotland's most southerly distillery at Bladnoch and Glenluce Abbey, part of a pilgrimage trail of Scotland's Kings and Queens.