Walk: Pine Cone Point – fiery forests & rushing rivers

📌 Dunkeld, Perth & Kinross
★★★

High above a forested swathe of Strath Tay, a lonely wooden shelter makes an excellent vantage point from which to admire this part of Central Scotland (or to hide under if it’s raining). Pine Cone Point is a few miles’ walk from the nearest car park, but can be visited as part of an enjoyable half day ramble following two Highland rivers and visiting the breathtakingly beautiful Ossian’s Hall at Black Linn Falls. Red squirrels are another highlight: we spotted several bushy tails on the walk, and a few more nearby on the same day. The scenery shows its best colours in autumn – aim for mid October in a normal year to catch the leaves on the trees turning.

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish at The Hermitage car park, off A9 1 mi west of Dunkeld / Birnam

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NO 013422

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 56.560790,-3.608033

🚌 Bus to Inver

🚗 Car park (charge)

📝 Key info

▶ 12 km / 7 mi | ▲ 200 m | ⌛ 3 hr

Features: 💧 River Braan; 🌊 The Hermitage & Black Linn Falls ★★★★; 📷 Pine Cone Point; 💧 River Tay

⬤ Moderate | Mostly good paths and tracks, but short sections are steep and rough.

➡️ Clockwise circuit with extension to Pine Cone Point: start – River Braan – The Hermitage & Black Linn Falls – track junction at 🧭 NO 005421 – Pine Cone Point – return to track junction – car park at 🧭 NO 002437 – confluence of River Tay & River Braan by path along River Tay – Inver – start via path along River Braan

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Several red squirrels, pheasants, mallards and goosanders; horses in field by the Tay. A few ripe blackberries.

Weather: 6ºC to start, sunny with light winds.

October 2018