Cateran Ecomuseum

A classic example of a Forest grown for timber. Glenisla is a highly productive forest and has a proven record of growing quality timber. Planting began here in the 1949...

Two prehistoric burial mounds. Cairn Motherie lies in rough pasture at around 490m close to the summit of Creigh Hill. It comprises a stony cairn some 13m in diameter by...

A popular fishing loch. This man-made loch, formed by the damming of the burn that runs down the glen, offers flyfishing for wild brown and rainbow trout. The name possibly...

[BLOCKED BY TREE FALL] An all day gravel adventure through the heart of the Cateran Ecomuseum with great views of mountains, quiet lochs, old castles and a breathtaking waterfall.

Auchintaple Loch, which has a boat house on the far side, is often named as a favourite spot by walkers on the Cateran Trail. Whilst the loch itself is man-made...

One of the most biodiverse sites in the Ecomuseum Little Glas Maol and Monega Hill are within the Caenlochan Special Area of Conservation and its floristic richness is of European...

After 1707 and the Union of Parliaments, when it became easier to trade across the border, droving, the organised movement of livestock on foot to established markets and fairs, became...

The highest of the Mounth Roads that cross the Cairngorms. The Monega Pass is the most westerly of the Mounth passes. The name ‘mounth’ being an Anglicised form of the...

A world-class mountain bike ride on two ridges in the superb surroundings of the Southern Cairngorms National Park with 360 degree views over mountains and deep glens.

Remains of a Pictish home. Careful scrutiny of the very tussocky ground on this site still reveals the outline of a Pictish Longhouse called a Pitcarmick House. Archaeologists surveying North...