Firth of Tay to Moray - Sustrans

Birnam Dunkeld Cycle 5
Miles
0 0.5
1
B898
Category: Riverside cycle path
Distance: 3 miles/5 kilometres
Time: 30 minutes
Gradient: Flat
Surface: Forest track and dust
0
Kilometres
0.5 1
1.5
To
Pitlochry
Start/
Finish
A923
Loch of the Lowes Visitor
Centre (Scottish Wildlife Trust)
King’s
Seat
Hotel
Dunkeld (National
Trust for Scotland)
Abbey
Dunkeld
Chapter House Museum
(Museums Galleries Scotland)
A9
Inver
This route leads through some very scenic and interesting parts
The Hermitage
of Highland (National Trust Perthshire. Beatrix Potter fans should make a short
detour for in Scotland) Birnam to visit The Beatrix Potter Centre and Garden;
the imaginative author spent childhood summers in the area.
Cross the Tay, on Telford’s famous bridge, to enter adjoining
Dunkeld. Once a significant Pictish centre, it is now a bustling
and prosperous town Dundonnachie
with several good eateries. Continue up the
main street and turn left into the grounds of the Hilton Dunkeld
House Hotel to join a track that leads along the tree-lined river
banks. Further on, the track loops up and over the river and
railway giving fine views of the river valley. Continue on minor
roads to Pitlochry or retrace your outward route.
A882
Heading south from Birnam, an underpass under the A9 leads
past the train station and onto a cycleway alongside the A9.
Route 77 then follows minor roads for 10 miles to Pitcairngreen
(see Map 4).
Dunkeld &
Birnam Station
Start/
Finish
Beatrix Potter
Garden & Birnam
Institute
A9
River Tay
A984
Birnam
To Perth
13 & Pitcairngreen
14