The Woodlands
Right alongside the City of Perth in Scotland lies the most wonderful Woodland Park of Kinnoull Hill. It can be reached in only a short walk to the East from the city centre across the bridges over the River Tay.
Stretching for some two and half miles (roughly 4 kilometres) from end to end Kinnoull Hill was in 1991 the first Woodland Park to be designated in Scotland. It is partly owned by the Perth and Kinross Council and partly by Forestry Commission Scotland.
The Hill itself is some 222 metres high and at the top there are magnificent views in all directions – east along the Tay Estuary toward Dundee and Fife, south west to the Ochils, west over the city of Perth as far as Ben Vorlich and Ben More, north to the foothills of the Grampians, Ben Lawers and Schiehallion and north east as far the Lochnagar massif. Views in fact to much of central Scotland and well worth the uphill walk.
Kinnoull Hill with its trees was gifted to the Town Council of Perth by Lord Dewar in 1924 and the land lying around Deuchny Hill was later acquired from the Kinfauns Estate by the Forestry Commission.
The top of Kinnoull Hill is dominated by a folly of a ruined castle, standing on the rocky cliffs high above the River Tay and the road to Dundee.