Broughty Ferry, Dundee City
★★
Sandwiched by suburbia between Dundee and Broughty Ferry, Dawson Park usually has limited interest except for locals. It does, however, have a particularly beautiful cherry tree avenue: a good spot for a photo if you catch them during spring blossoming. The rest of the park includes a large playground, tennis courts and a smart community garden (also worth a look), while Claypotts Castle is just a few hundred metres away from the park’s eastern boundary.
Location
O.S. Grid Reference: NO 446316
GPS coordinates: 56.474287,-2.895649
Strathern Road |
Broughty Ferry (1 mi)
Car park
Key info
Always open
Free
Related Features
Broughty Castle & Museum
Broughty Ferry, Dundee City★★★ Broughty Castle was built at the end of the 15th century under the command of James IV, to defend the Firth of Tay from marauding English ships. Dundee City council operates the interior as a museum about the local area, but in our opinion the…
Claypotts Castle
Broughty Ferry, Dundee City★★ You can't go inside Claypotts Castle, but it's an elegant and impressive tower house even from the outside. The castle is built to a Z-plan, but with some particularly intricate architectural features around the roofline. It was built between 1569 to 1588 for the Strachan…
Dundee Museum of Transport
Dundee City★★★ This attraction on the east side of Dundee may be overshadowed by the more fashionable sights around the city's waterfront, but is well worth a look. Dozens of buses, cars, motorbikes, bicycles and even a horse-drawn ambulance are housed in three exhibition halls, with the region's earliest…
