CountrysideAberdeenshireNational Trust for Scotland4.7
Free entry for National Trust members
This place is cared for by the National Trust for Scotland, a separate charity. Under the INTO reciprocal visiting arrangement, National Trust members from England, Wales and Northern Ireland get free standard entry. Show your current membership card at admissions.
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Free for everyone. Car parks are pay and display, waived for National Trust for Scotland members and, under the INTO reciprocal arrangement, National Trust members.
pay and display at Linn of Dee and Linn of Quoich
Pay and display car parks at the Linn of Dee (with accessible bays and toilets) and the Linn of Quoich, at the end of the Linn of Dee road from Braemar; free for National Trust for Scotland members and, under the INTO arrangement, National Trust members. Coaches £10 a day at the Linn of Dee.
Mar Lodge Estate is Britain's largest National Nature Reserve, 29,000 hectares of the Cairngorms west of Braemar, cared for by the National Trust for Scotland since 1995 and holding fifteen Munros, including Ben Macdui, Britain's second highest mountain. The easy walks were Queen Victoria's favourites: the Linn of Dee, where the river squeezes through a rock gorge below a Victorian bridge, the Linn of Quoich, and the track through Glen Lui to Derry Lodge into the heart of the hills. The Caledonian pinewood is being restored after centuries of felling, and the estate is home to red deer, red squirrels, pine martens, golden eagles and black grouse, with otters on the Quoich wetlands. The lodge itself is let as holiday apartments; there is no visitor centre. Reviewers come for the walks and the scenery, and warn about midges in August. Tips from regulars: the pay and display car parks are free for members, and keep dogs close from April to July for nesting birds.
No visitor centre. Toilets at the Linn of Dee car park.
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Dog friendly
Circular from the Linn of Quoich car park through Glen Quoich pinewoods past the Earl of Mar's Punchbowl; 3 miles (5km), 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours, moderate; parking 5 pounds, free for members.
Dog access not confirmed
19-mile mountain pass north through the Cairngorms from Deeside to Speyside; long-distance remote walk.