📌 Bridge of Earn, Perth & Kinross
★★★
The dulcet tones of motorway traffic accompany the start of the ascent to the two hill forts on Moncreiffe Hill. This isn’t a good walk to get away from it all, but the open summit areas are the sites of Pictish hill forts and give great views over Perth, the eastern Ochils, the Firth of Tay and Kinnoull Hill – the latter almost a carbon copy of Moncreiffe. Further down, tracks wind through unspoiled woodland with snowdrops in February and daffodils in spring.
📷 Chronological photo guide
🌍 Location
📌 Start / finish at Wallacetown Wood, off minor road 2 mi east of Bridge of Earn
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NO 153192
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 56.357558,-3.371667
❌ No public transport within 1 mi
🚗 Car park
📝 Key info
▶ 9 km / 6 mi | ▲ 270 m | ⌛ 2.5 hr
Features: △ Moncreiffe Hill west top & fort (185 m); △ Moncreiffe Hill east top & fort (223 m, sub-2000′ Marilyn)
⬤ Moderate | Clear tracks and paths through forest, steep in places.
Download file for GPS➡️ Clockwise circuit with extensions to west & east tops: start – path junction at 🧭 NO 127198 – Tarsappie Hill – Moncreiffe Hill west top, trig point & fort – Moncreiffe Hill east (higher) top & fort – Grange Hill – start. Walk roughly waymarked in red at times, but our route doesn’t follow the waymarked route exactly.
🥾 On our last visit
Wildlife: Pheasant ambling through the forest on the return; sheep.
Weather: About 5ºC, cloudy with a few spots of rain and the odd bright spell; breezy at the top.
February 2016
