Historic SiteFalkirkNational Trust for Scotland
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.
limited parking
Limited parking at the end of a narrow access road signposted off the A905 after Airth, free for National Trust for Scotland members and, under the INTO arrangement, National Trust members. An all-ability path leads from the car park to the pond viewing platform.
The Pineapple is a summerhouse of 1761 built for the Earl of Dunmore at Dunmore Park near Airth, its upper storey a stone pineapple 14 metres high, carved leaf by leaf so that no joint holds water, and one of the strangest buildings in Scotland. Pineapples were then among Scotland's most exotic foods, grown in heated pits in the walled garden below. The National Trust for Scotland cares for the building, which is let as a holiday home by the Landmark Trust, and the walled garden and grounds around it are free to wander, with an orchard, an all-ability path from the car park to a viewing platform over the former curling pond, and woodland full of wildlife. A marked 1.2-mile woodland walk runs through the grounds, where dogs are welcome. Reviewers come for the photographs and the quiet, and say it is an easy stop off the M9. Tips from visitors: the access road is narrow and parking limited, there are no facilities beyond picnic spots, and the interior is not open unless you stay.
The building itself is a Landmark Trust holiday let and is not open to visitors.
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Dog access not confirmed
Marked woodland path in the grounds; 1.2 miles (2km), 45 minutes, easy; mostly unsurfaced, rutted and muddy in spots; parking free for members.
Dog access not confirmed
Down the redwood avenue to the Elphinstone Tower site; 0.6 miles (1km), 15 minutes, easy.
