North of Belfast Lough

Glenariff is one of the loveliest of the nine Glens of Antrim.

The Glenariff Forest Park offers spectacular walks with three waterfalls, trails along the sheer sides of the gorge, mountain view lookouts and a visitors center.

Island Magee is a peninsula 7mi/11km long and 2mi/3km wide. A striking feature on the east side of the peninsula is the Gobbins, a stretch of basalt cliffs 253ft/77m high containing a number of caves. There are numerous legends associated with the cliffs and caves. At the end of the peninsula can be seen a megalithic chambered tomb (dolmen).

Waterfoot, at the nearer end of Red Bay on the Antrim coast, is delightfully situated, encircled amphitheaterlike by sandstone cliffs at the mouth of Glenariff.

Loughside Open Dairy Farm is home to fallow deer, Highland cattle, ponies, donkeys, Jacob sheep, Friesian Holstein herds. It also has a bird sanctuary and adventure playground with a miniature train ride.

A romantic and beautiful stretch of road leads from Larne to Cushendun. Having passed through the Black Cave Tunnel, the road rounds Ballygalley Head with its great basalt crags. Ballygalley is a popular seaside resort with an old castle, now a hotel.

The next seaside resort on the scenic road from Glenarm is Carnlough, with a small harbor and good sandy beach.

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The Knight Ride Exhibition features a monorail ride through the history of Carrickfergus from AD 531.

Just beyond Waterfoot is the little known resort of Cushendall.

Just beyond Waterfoot is the well known resort of Cushendun.

From Ballygalley to Glenarm, a little port at the mouth of the River Glenarm, the road is flanked by white limestone cliffs.

From Carrickfergus a particularly lovely section of coast road runs by way of Whitehead, a popular seaside resort at the mouth of Belfast Lough, to Island Magee.