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By Killin, Perthshire, Scotland,
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Contact Ken or Catherine |
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Tel: 01567 820527 Int:
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Outdoor Activities in the Killin and Loch Tay area
Walking - Cycling - Canoeing / Kayaking - Fishing - Golf
You can hire bikes, canoes and kayaks and buy walking and mountaineering
equipment at the
Killin Outdoor
Centre and Mountain Shop
Places of
Interest around Killin and Loch Tay
Historic Dwellings - Distilleries
- Galleries
and Shopping
The summits of more than
35 hills over 3,000 feet lie within a 20-mile radius of Morenish, providing
hill walkers with a wide range of walking challenges, summer and winter. A list of these “Munros”, as they are known,
is given below and photographs of
many of them can be seen in our Mountain Photo Gallery.
Tarmachan Mountaineering,
based in Morenish, organises mountain walking
holidays and mountain skills courses in the area, summer and winter.
The Mountain Visitor
Centre for the Ben Lawers National
Nature Reserve is less than four miles away.
Beinn Ghlas and Loch Tay, seen from Ben
Lawers Meall Corranaich and Beinn Ghlas in winter
Wintertime in Perthshire has its own attractions. If high-level walking seems too ambitious
there are a number of lower level walks, such as forest walks. Low snow levels also provide some of the best
opportunities to see stags in large numbers and at close quarters.
Red deer stags in winter at Drumochter Pass
on the Perthshire / Highland Region border
The Killin area has many
lovely cycling routes, Including National Cycle Route 7, which runs on the
route of the former railway line between Killin and Balquidder.
The lower part of the
River Lochay and the head of Loch Tay provide a most beautiful wild environment
for canoeing and kayaking.
Loch Tay is noted for
its salmon and trout fishing and more recently for its pike fishing. Guests at Morenish Mews are entitled to free
trout fishing from the loch shore of the Morenish property. We also have a small boat for hire from which
guests are entitled to fly-fish for trout.
The west end of Loch Tay at Killin is becoming increasingly well known
for pike fishing, with several pike over 30lbs being caught in the past few
years. Salmon fishing permits can also
be arranged on Loch Tay and on local rivers.
The Morenish Mews
loch frontage in spring
The Killin Golf Club runs a delightful nine-hole course 2 miles from
Morenish.
Places of
Interest around Killin and Loch Tay
The environs of Loch Tay have a history of human habitation dating back
to Neolithic times. Visitors can
discover more about life in Loch Tay’s many Iron Age lake dwellings at the
Scottish Crannog Centre. More recent
dwellings open to visitors range from the grand, such as the 16th
century Castle Menzies, to the humble 19th century Moirlanich
Longhouse, by Killin.
Schiehallion viewed from Kinloch Rannoch,
Christmas Day, 2004
If after all this
outdoor activity you feel that you need some inner warmth, Perthshire has a
number of very interesting malt whisky distilleries that are open for visiting
all year round. We can suggest Dewar’s World of
Whisky (Aberfeldy distillery); Scotland’s oldest
distillery at Glenturret (by Crieff), home of “The Famous Grouse” whisky; Edradour distillery by Pitlochry, the smallest distillery in Scotland; and Blair Athol distillery which, confusingly, is not in Blair Atholl but in Pitlochry.
Edradour Distillery and the smallest
(legal) still in Scotland
The Watermill in Aberfeldy is a
noted art gallery and bookshop, with a focus on Scottish, travel and art
books. You can browse in the delightful
coffee shop.
Ardent shoppers can also visit the
“Harrods of the Highlands” at the House of Bruar, north of Blair Atholl.
The House of Bruar
35 Munros within a 30 km radius
(You can see pictures of many of these Munros in our Mountain Photo Gallery.)
Twelve percent of Scotland’s 284
Munros* lie within 30 kilometers of Morenish, though you may have to drive a
bit further than that to reach some of them.
(* Hills over 914 m / 3,000 ft. Named
after Sir Hugh Munro, who first tabulated them in 1891.)
Munro
Rank by Height Rannoch Area
59 Schiehallion:
1,083m
Glen
Lyon
91 Carn
Mairg: 1,042m
103 Carn
Gorm: 1,028m
169 Meall nan
Aighean (Creag Mhor): 981m
186 Meall
Garbh (Glen Lyon): 968m
197 Stuchd an
Lochain: 960m
248 Meall
Buidhe: 932m
Loch
Tay
10 Ben
Lawers: 1,214m
34 An
Stuc: 1,118m
35 Meall
Garbh (Lawers): 1,118m
47 Bheinn
Ghlas: 1,103
68 Meall
Corranaich: 1,069m
89 Meall
nan Tarmachan: 1,044m
136 Meall
Greigh: 1,001m
261 Meall á Choire
Leith: 926m
Glen
Lochay
62 Beinn
Heasarnich: 1,078m
84 Creag
Mhor: 1,047m
93 Meall
Ghaordaidh: 1,039m
Glen
Dochart
16 Ben
More: 1,174m
18 Stob
Binnein: 1,165m
87 Cruach
Ardrain: 1,046m
106 Ben
Challum: 1,025m
199 Meall
Glas: 959m
220 Beinn
Tulaichean: 946m
270 Sgiath
Chùil: 921m
Glen
Fallon
147 An
Caisteal: 995m
233 Beinn à
Chroin: 940m
Bridge
of Orchy
61 Beinn
à Chreachain: 1,081m
64 Beinn
Dorain: 1,076m
94 Beinn
Achaladair: 1,039m
129 Beinn
an Dòthaidh: 1,004m
211 Beinn
Mhanach: 953m
Loch
Earn and Strath Earn
165 Ben
Vorlich: 985m
182 Stuc
à Chroin: 975m
250 Ben
Chonzie: 931m
