An all year-round destination, Pitlochry is one of the best locations from which to explore Highland Perthshire
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Pitlochry is at the very heart of Scotland, and is an ideal base to tour the Scottish mainland as well as the Isle of Skye.
From Pitlochry you can tour a range of areas including Glencoe, Fort William, Isle of Skye, Loch Ness, Inverness-shire, Fife and Speyside.
Highland Perthshire has a treasure trove of beautiful scenery – hills and glens, lochs and rivers, characterful villages, historic sites – all this and wildlife as well – it has it all .
Tour the Pitlochry area - This is a popular tour taking you to bonny Loch Tummel via the Queens View (Scotland's best view spot), around pristine Loch Rannoch, to remote Rannoch Station by Rannoch Moor, The south Loch Rannoch route including the Black Wood of Rannoch (with its ancient Caledonian Scots Pines) past Schiehallion the Fairy Mountain where the world's mass was calculated in the 19th Century and return to Pitlochry.
Pitlochry is an ideal base to tour other parts of Scotland.
Loch Ness is 2 hours north. St Andrews the home of golf and ancient university town 1.5 hours away. The City of Stirling with its magnificent castle and the Battlefields of Wallace and Bruce fame is 1.5 hours to the south. Oban and the Islands to the west is 2.5 hrs away.