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Walks and Strolls

It has been said that the Kinnaird Estate encompasses every type of Scottish landscape within its 7,000 acres. The variety is certainly extraordinary and a network of walks lead guests through farmland, river banks, to high moorland and to one of Scotland's few remaining juniper forests, without once leaving the privacy of the estate.

Keen walkers may well choose to make a day of it, stopping at one of the estate's bothys for a civilised picnic lunch, brought up from the main house kitchens by Kinnaird's Outdoor Butler.

Closer to the house, the mature gardens or the walled garden are the perfect place to relax or to take a gentle stroll by the gazebo, through the woodland amongst trees and wild flowers or down to the river.

Estate Walks - Choose one of the pathways on Kinnaird Estate and discover the 3 Kinnaird ‘champion’ trees or...

Kinnaird Secret Walk join Derek the Head Gardener for an hour to walk the gardens surrounding the house and the ‘Walled Garden’ he will also help you to discover the 3 ‘champion’ trees the tallest of their kind in UK & Ireland.

“...three of the trees are confirmed as new champions, the tallest of their kind currently known. These are the Silver Fir across the road from the walled garden, the Nootka Cypress and the taller Oriental Spruce next to the Grand Fir in the pinetum. It was remarkable to find the three new ‘champions’ or relatively widespread trees at a new site, but your trees are so ideally sheltered that I think they will grow quite a bit taller.”
Owen Johnson, The Tree Register - a unique record of notable and ancient trees in Britain and Ireland, July 2007

The Hermitage - The waterfalls, rapids and swirling pools of the River Braan provide the focal point for this wild ‘tree garden’. An impressive stand of Douglas firs provides a dramatic setting for the walk route and the concentration of so many ‘big trees’ creates a cathedral-like atmosphere. Views across the waters of the Braan take in a stately Douglas fir measured at 64.5 metres (212 ft) until recently, the tallest tree in Britain.

The Dunkeld Walks - Dunkeld is an excellent location for walking much of Perthshire with eight local Dunkeld walks, ranging from 3 to nearly 7 miles, total 36 miles in all. Each walk has its own distinct character and each gives a unique insight into the landscape, flora and fauna of Perthshire.

LARCH WALK For those with little time or unable to undertake the longer walks this delightful ramble offers in miniature many of the sights to be enjoyed on a larger scale elsewhere. There is a hill top view point at King's Seat, riverside and woodland paths, beautiful trees and many different animals and plants. The signs along the paths suggest the most pleasant direction to take but the choice is yours.

INVER WALK A low level walk through Craigvinean Forest and along the south bank of the River Tay - the longest river in Scotland. Trees provide shelter from wind and rain, making the walk suitable for all seasons.

INCHEWAN WALK The walk follows the Inchewan Burn up Birnam Glen to the northern end of Glen Garr, offering attractive views of the surrounding hills and straths from the high moorland and from open clearings in the Ladywell Plantation.

FUNGARTH WALK The tracks passing Fungarth and Haughend which lead out from Dunkeld to Loch of Lowes were once old highways and the way the tracks pass through open country, offering pleasant walking and views of Loch of Lowes and the surrounding hills.

BRAAN WALK This is a walk through lovely Strathbraan, again in sheltered woodland. It also passes through The Hermitage but this time turns west to more waterfalls higher up the River Braan at Rumbling Bridge. These upper falls and the height of the road bridge above the deep chasm below the falls provide views possibly more spectacular than those at The Hermitage. Rumbling Bridge is in Millais countryside.

BIRNAM HILL WALK Of all the walks, this is certainly the most strenuous as it climbs over 1,000 feet to King's Seat at the top of Birnam Hill. However, the effort is well rewarded. The views in all directions are quite spectacular, particularly looking south towards Perth from Stair Bridge or north across Dunkeld and Birnam from the crag at the top of the steep descent back down to the village.

BIRNAM WALK Part of the shortest and easiest of the walks follows the Tay riverside path downstream from the mouth of the River Braan. This section offers interesting views of Dunkeld and its cathedral across on the north bank and runs under the historic Dunkeld Bridge which was completed in 1808 to the design of the great Scottish engineer Thomas Telford and financed, in the main, by the fourth Duke of Atholl.

ATHOLL WOODS WALK Atholl Woods stretch over many acres of hill country to the north of Dunkeld and this longest walk circles around these vast conifer plantations. The trees are regularly harvested and the cleared areas provide many interesting views from the forest tracks, particularly looking north up Strath Tay or south west from near Birkenburn down across the lochs of Craiglush, Lowes and Butterstone.