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The area boasts an astonishing array of sights and activities for you to enjoy.
Welcome to Crieff and Strathearn Valley
Boasting spectacular landscapes, magnificent lochs and rivers, challenging golf courses, compelling salmon and brown trout angling, stately homes, castles, large and small retail shops and visitor attractions that all come alive with historical significance - you’ll be spoilt for choice for things to see and do when you visit Crieff and the Strathearn Valley. All this is fully supported by what the region is renowned: some of the best rated hotels, guest houses, caravan parks, and self-catering accommodation in the country.
If you want to climb a mountain, climb away as there are so many wonderful scenic walks that you will not know where to start! Forget about having to hunt around for spectacular scenery and excellent walking opportunities, everywhere you look in this region you’ll be knocked out by awe-inspiring landscapes and truly beautiful pictorial views, yet you would be only an hour’s drive from the fashionable shopping malls in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The quiet valley of Strathearn follows the river Earn from its source at St. Fillans, through the geological fault line separating Highland and Lowland Scotland. Indeed, the historic and ancient town of Crieff is often referred to as ‘The Gateway to the Highlands’.
Some of Scotland’s most beautiful golf courses are waiting to be discovered with a stunning array of lochs, rivers, mountains and cliff top forests – so grab your clubs and away you go! Spend a day in pursuit of salmon or native brown trout on stretches of water that can boast to be among the best angling destinations in Europe.
For those less energetic, however, the region is also home to some of the country’s best Visitor Attractions as well as an appealing array of independent retail shops in ancient Crieff and surrounding villages. This is coupled with a fine selection of relaxed country pubs, excellent bistro restaurants and a superb choice of personalized quiet the more formal occasion.
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