Hope by WildLand

Set within the coastal landscapes of Sutherland, Hope opened in May 2026. Once a historic hunting lodge, it has been recreated as an exclusive-use retreat, hotel and collection of cottages on WildLand’s 100,000-acre estate at Scotland’s most northerly point. WildLand calls it “a new kind of Highland hospitality, profoundly connected to nature.”

Writing in Vogue, Hayley Maitland put the house in its landscape:

Available for hotel stays from August to October and for private hire the rest of the year, Hope started life as a shooting lodge for the 3rd Duke of Sutherland in 1867—standing between the cold, green waters of the North Atlantic and a loch whose pebbled shores are still dotted with the abandoned cottages of farmers displaced by the Highland Clearances. Rising vertiginously above them: the 3,000-foot peak of Ben Hope, which is haloed with mist when I pull off the North Coast 500 and down Hope’s driveway one pearly-skied day in May.

On the estate, the places to stay are scattered rather than stacked. Hope Lodge has seven bedrooms, each with a Gaelic name. Beside it, An Cala, an architecturally striking cabin, sleeps four. Two self-catering cottages sit on the shores of Loch Hope, with views over the water to Ben Hope. They are decked in antique Scots pine, and come with deep bathtubs and firepits. Together, the lodge and An Cala sleep up to 20; the cottages can take another 10.

The lodge can be taken exclusively all year, on its own or with the cottages. Individual hotel rooms — in the lodge or An Cala — are available five days a week through August and September 2026, with the lodge closed on Sunday and Monday evenings. Those dates are the property’s own; Maitland’s Vogue piece, written after a May visit, describes hotel stays from August to October and private hire for the rest of the year.

At the centre of the place is the Clachan, a collection of stone buildings. The Steadings there hold treatment rooms, a gym and an adventure centre, and it is where guides set out for hikes, conservation tours and swims. Days are tied to the weather: yoga by the loch, a wild swim, foraging, tree planting, a climb, or a paddle along the coast. Food follows the season, from the estate, trusted local suppliers, or what is foraged nearby. Picnic lunches go out into the landscape; afternoon tea is the welcome back.

WildLand’s own account of the opening places Hope in a 200-year plan to restore the land around it. The interiors, the estate says, are oak and tweed, flax and oilskin — a restored nineteenth-century lodge, with cottages and cabins set into the ground around it.

It would almost be too picturesque a scene, if there weren’t lead-gray clouds gathering in the distance. “All that is needed for the complete enjoyment of Scotland,” Vogue advised readers in 1930, “is a waterproof.” It wasn’t wrong—but a reservation at Hope certainly doesn’t hurt.

— Hayley Maitland, Vogue

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