Linn of Tummel – A River Walk and Supper at a Coaching Inn
Just north-west of Pitlochry, the Tummel and the Garry meet in oak woods looked after by the National Trust for Scotland, and the riverside path to the Linn of Tummel makes a lovely walk.
The name comes from the Gaelic linne, a pool. Afterwards, supper is a short drive west, at an inn above Loch Tummel.
The walk
Park in the free council car park at Garry Bridge on the B8019, where a board has a map of the walk. Steep steps lead down to the River Garry, and the path follows it for about a mile through oak woods to the Linn of Tummel, where the Tummel runs down in rapids to meet it.
On a small promontory stands an obelisk to Queen Victoria, who came here on 17 September 1844, and by the meeting of the rivers is a fish pass built in 1910. Another mile up the Tummel, the path reaches the Coronation Bridge, a small suspension footbridge of 1911.
Back the same way, it is about 4 miles and roughly an hour and a half.
If it rains
On a wet day the path keeps to the woods by the rivers, and supper is indoors.
On the way
- Queen’s View
Queen's View is on the same road, 4 minutes short of the inn, and looks west along Loch Tummel to Schiehallion. Its car park charges £3 a day.
Afterwards
10 min by car
The Inn at Loch Tummel
Supper
It's 10 minutes' drive west along the B8019 to the Inn at Loch Tummel, built as a coaching inn in the early 1800s and looking out over the loch. Supper is served from 5pm to 9pm, with the last table at 8pm, and everything is cooked in the inn's own kitchen.
Killiecrankie House, michelin-starred country house.
For further reading, before you go.
Photograph by The Inn at Loch Tummel via Google