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Where to go, eat and stay in Perthshire.
At Dunkeld the road crosses the Highland line, the wooded hills close in and the Tay runs wide and fast beside it. Perthshire has a foot in both worlds. In the south there's Perth, the Fair City, with Scone Palace on its edge, where the kings of Scots were crowned.
A palace, castles and wooded gorgesPlaces to visit
Munros, old pinewoods and waterfallsWalks and the outdoors
Farm kitchens, bakeries and country innsFood and drink
Shops, studios and makersShops and makers
Cabins in the pines and farmhouses on the hillPlaces to stay
Days we have driven, stop by stopDays out
From our guide
Blair AthollBlair Castle
Blair AthollBlair Atholl Watermill
Killiecrankie, near PitlochrySoldier’s Leap
Near PerthScone Palace
PerthBlack Watch Museum
Near CrieffInnerpeffray Library
Blair AthollBlair CastleBlair AthollBlair Atholl WatermillKilliecrankie, near PitlochrySoldier’s LeapNear PerthScone PalacePerthBlack Watch MuseumNear CrieffInnerpeffray LibraryThe history of Perthshire.
By the time the Romans reached what is now Perthshire in the 1st century AD – kicking off a relatively brief period of occupation – the region had already witnessed all manner of prehistoric settlements.
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Days out
A dayMeall Buidhe from the Giorra DamBy car
A dayStuc an Lochain from the Giorra DamBy car
A dayBeinn Ghlas from the Ben Lawers car parkBy car
A morningMeall nan Tarmachan from Lochan na LairigeBy car
A morningMeall Corranaich from Lochan na LairigeBy car
A morningMeall a' Choire Leith from Lochan na LairigeBy car
A dayMeall Buidhe from the Giorra DamBy carA dayStuc an Lochain from the Giorra DamBy carA dayBeinn Ghlas from the Ben Lawers car parkBy carA morningMeall nan Tarmachan from Lochan na LairigeBy carA morningMeall Corranaich from Lochan na LairigeBy carA morningMeall a' Choire Leith from Lochan na LairigeBy carNew days out in Perthshire.
Ready-made days, the newest first, each with its drive times, its stops and somewhere to eat.
See every day out in Perthshire
A table for tonight.Forty species of bird have been seen in a little over an hour's walk on the land round West Tempar Bothy, near Kinloch Rannoch.Free to visit.Carie Forest Walks, Perthshire.A Douglas fir at the Hermitage, near Dunkeld, was the second tree in Britain to pass 200 feet, until a storm in 2017.Blair Castle, in Perthshire, is home to the only private army left in Europe.An autumn weekend in Perthshire, while the bracken turns.Laurie Goodlad and her family walked the Birks of Aberfeldy, a woodland trail past the Falls of Moness in Perthshire, in just over an hour.True or false: Queen's View, looking west along Loch Tummel in Highland Perthshire, is named after Queen Victoria.Tickled Trout Café, Perthshire.Shopkeeper Focus - Yard 97 with Robert WorkmanMurrayshall, in Perthshire.In 1891 Andrew Carnegie had a cask of Dewar's whisky sent to the President of the United States, and American distillers were furious.Pitlochry, Blair Castle and the Falls of Bruar.In 1969 the engraver Malcolm Appleby bought the old Victorian railway station at Crathes, near Banchory, for 1,600 pounds, seven shillings and four pence.Kinross High Street has filled up again with independent shops, from a gift shop in an old betting shop to a coffee roaster people travel for.Blair Athol Distillery.A painted panel above the old door of Castle Menzies, in Perthshire, records a marriage of 1571.Scottish Gliding Centre.The pagoda roof at Dewar's Aberfeldy distillery, in Perthshire, still crowns a kiln that stopped drying barley decades ago.The Rose House.True or false: most of the whisky made at Blair Athol distillery in Pitlochry is bottled as Blair Athol single malt.The tasting rooms at Dewar's Aberfeldy, in Perthshire, were made in 2024 inside the distillery's original warehouses.Discovering the Nooks and Crannies of PerthshireGlen Lyon.The huts at Cultybraggan, by Comrie, held the prisoners Britain judged the most committed Nazis, and now the village owns them.At Whitehill Farm House near Auchterarder, in Perthshire, you take a glass bottle from the kitchen to fill with organic milk at a farm's honesty hut.When the writer Rosie Steer eloped to Highland Perthshire, she married by a waterfall in a forest near Dunkeld, on her fifteenth anniversary as a couple.ARAN Bakery.Stories from Perthshire.Stories from Perthshire.Stories from Perthshire.Stories from Perthshire.Stories from Perthshire.Stories from Perthshire.Stories from Perthshire.John Dewar, whose name is on Dewar's whisky, was born in 1805 into a crofting family in a hamlet near Aberfeldy. What is the hamlet called?The green steam engine in the grounds of Dewar's Aberfeldy distillery, in Perthshire, spent its working life at a distillery on the River Spey.The whisky bar at Dornoch Castle in Sutherland has been named Whisky Bar of the Year at the 2026 Scottish Licensed Trade News Awards.Pitlochry.What's on in Perthshire, today and coming up.What's on in Perthshire, today and coming up.What's on in Perthshire, today and coming up.What's on in Perthshire, today and coming up.Dogs are welcome in the whisky lounge at Dewar's Aberfeldy distillery, in Perthshire, as long as they behave.Beatrix Potter Garden.Who was the last king to be made King of Scots on the Stone of Destiny at Scone?A day out in Perthshire.A day out in Perthshire.A day out in Perthshire.A day out in Perthshire.A day out in Perthshire.A day out in Perthshire.A day out in Perthshire.At Pitlochry Dam on the River Tummel, more than 250,000 salmon have climbed the 34 pools of its fish ladder since it was built in 1952.House of Bruar.At the Tickled Trout Café near Perth, a water channel runs right through the building, an old mill at a trout farm.Between 3000 and 9000 years old, the Fortingall Yew is the oldest tree in Britain. The once enormous trunk has been steadily chipped away by souvenir hunters and is now a fraction of its former size.Somewhere to stay in Perthshire.Somewhere to stay in Perthshire.Somewhere to stay in Perthshire.Somewhere to stay in Perthshire.Somewhere to stay in Perthshire.Somewhere to stay in Perthshire.Somewhere to stay in Perthshire.Battle of Dunkeld.Somewhere to eat in Perthshire.Somewhere to eat in Perthshire.Somewhere to eat in Perthshire.Somewhere to eat in Perthshire.Somewhere to eat in Perthshire.Somewhere to eat in Perthshire.Somewhere to eat in Perthshire.The red squirrels at Cluny House Gardens, near Aberfeldy, come down to the paths for most of the day.An earl of Drummond set out to plant an avenue of trees running twenty miles from his garden at Drummond Castle, near Crieff, all the way to Perth.Alyth.Something to do in Perthshire.Something to do in Perthshire.Something to do in Perthshire.Something to do in Perthshire.Something to do in Perthshire.Something to do in Perthshire.Something to do in Perthshire.Somewhere to go in Perthshire.Somewhere to go in Perthshire.Somewhere to go in Perthshire.Somewhere to go in Perthshire.Somewhere to go in Perthshire.Somewhere to go in Perthshire.Somewhere to go in Perthshire.Fraser Potter rebuilt The Taybank in Dunkeld, a pub once owned by Dougie MacLean, who wrote the folk tune 'Caledonia', while training to row the Atlantic.