Local Pitlochry Walks

Our new home town Pitlochry is blessed with a variety of local walks many of which we can do from the front door. They include a woodland walk, a Loch walk, some wee hills and a Corbett - Ben Y Vrackie - which we look out to at home.

Here are 6 of our ‘Walks from Home’

Black Spout Woods and Edradour - one of our regular dog walks uses the Pitlochry Path Network and passes through a mixed but mainly Oak Woodland. The woods are named after Black Spout an impress 190’ waterfall and our route passes this before heading out to Edradour where one of Scotland’s smallest Malt Whisky Distilleries is located. There are at times open views of Ben Y Vrackie.

Golf Course Loop - another regular dog walk is a loop out to Pitlochry Golf Course. This give great views of the surrounding hills and south down the Strath. The trees on the Course are stunning in Autumn.

Craigower - a 407 m hill above the Golf Course. Gives great views south down the Strath and west towards Lochs Tummel and Rannoch. Schiehallion is often visible and on really clear days the Blackmount hills of Glencoe can be seen.

Loch Faskally - Pitlochry lies on the north side of the Loch and a walk around it’s eastern end, using bridges or Faskally Dam, is very pleasant - especially on calm days when reflections on the water are stunning. A wee bay known as the Dell is very popular throughout the year with local swimmers (the Dell Dippers) including Susan.

The Clunie Loop - a long walk if completed from home as it’s a loop on the hills on the south side of the Strath. It climbs to a view point at 443m. On a clear day it’s a great walk - with snow on the ground it’s superb.

Ben Y Vrackie - at 841m the Ben is one of Scotland’s 222 Corbetts and dominates the north side of town. The walk to the summit takes about 2 hours from home and the views are superb. In winter it is often snow covered.

We consider ourselves very fortunate to live in a place like this.