NC500 campers branded ‘scum' after human waste & rubbish found scattered across beauty spot
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A LOCAL living along the North Coast 500 route has hit out at campers for leaving human waste and rubbish at a beauty spot.
The furious resident was left unimpressed after making the grim discovery yesterday.
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There are constant rows about the behaviour of tourists embarking on the popular route
Credit: NC500 The Land Weeps
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One local was left fuming after discovering human waste and rubbish at a beauty spot
Credit: NC500 The Land Weeps
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Images shared online show scorch marks from abandoned fire pits
Credit: NC500 The Land Weeps
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The local urged visitors to consider the environmental impact of their behaviour
Credit: NC500 The Land Weeps
He claimed to have found bin bags dumped in bushes, plastic bags full of waste hanging from branches and abandoned fire pits on the ground.
It follows constant rows about the behaviour of tourists embarking on the hugely popular 516-mile route.
The local urged visitors to consider the environmental impact of their behaviour while parking up or camping.
Taking to Facebook group NC500 The Land Weeps, he wrote: "This post is to all those who opt out of staying at campsites and think it's acceptable to stop wherever you like on the NC500.
"If you are one of those people who uses a 'park up wherever you like for free' site, have you ever considered the cumulative environmental impact at these locations?
"Well this is what I found at one yesterday. Human waste and tissues lying around for all to see, bin bags dumped in bushes, plastic bags full of waste hung from branches, and abandoned fire pits on the ground.
"Flattened vegetation that no longer grows due to countless tyres driving over it.
"Apparently it's a minority and I often hear the righteous indignation from those who don't stay in campsites who say 'I would never do that'. Well, as long as you continue to park up for free, or say it's okay to do then you are part of the problem.
"This is one of hundreds of sites across the route. I could take you to many within my area and all suffer from similar abuse.
"Shame on you all for abusing the Highlands and the wonderful environment we have here."
Locals fury at NC500 pranksters
Fellow locals flocked to the comments to react to the "feral behaviour" of some visitors.
One fumed: "They must really hate the place. They must think it sucks. They see nothing good in it - no beauty, no charm. My heart is broken."
Another said: "Well said. Freeloading entitled cheapskatery at its worst."
A third weighed in: "Challenge the behaviour and you get abuse. Post about it and you are flooded by naysayers. This is no longer a minority. The minority as stated, are the ones that don't waste."
A fourth put: "Many only visit once, tick the NC500 off their list of '"challenges" and move on to another, so they don't care what devastation they leave behind.
"Sadly many respectful, regular visitors of many years have been driven away now."
A fifth added: "It's heartbreaking, what is wrong with folk these days? They just take everything and then trash it."
Over the years, NC500 tourists have been accused of cramming car parks with motorhomes and overpopulating small areas, causing damage to the local environment.
There are also concerns that the single-track roads "cannot cope" with the increasing volume of traffic.
Meanwhile, a report revealed that cases of people doing their business in laybys and elsewhere has doubled in two years.
The Highlands get more than six million visitors a year - including day-trippers, overseas travellers and cruise passengers.
Fresh calls have recently been made for a tourist tax on campervans trailing along the route.
Some NC500 residents are unhappy that the roads are clogged with campervans, and many have had to deal with tourists doing the toilet outside their homes.
Meanwhile, Rangers in the Highlands have been forced to call in cops to deal with outbursts of extreme aggressive behaviour from visitors.
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