Special Days Out

Bespoke Highland Car Tours

Tours for up to 4 persons, are tailored to the clients tastes and interests. They can include, history, castles, distilleries, wildlife etc, or why not just sit back and enjoy the magnificent scenery of Highland Perthshire and beyond.

To ensure your comfort and safety your tour car will be a new top of the range 4x4 vehicle with all the usual 4x4 comfort and extra height ensuring great all roundviewing.

Why not let us take the strain whilst you relax and enjoy what Highland Perthshire and beyond has to offer! Tours can be tailored to your needs and times, (minimum 4hours).

Email your enquiry to : rowens55@rocketmail.com

The Birks Cinema

The fully refurbished single-screen cinema offers a film-tastic 100-seat auditorium with spacious, comfortable seating and state-of-the art digital projection and sound system.

Audiences can enjoy the latest movie releases as well as broadcast live events (theatre, opera, ballet), while enjoying a glass of local beer or wine too!

The welcoming cafe-bar offers a wide selection of coffees, teas, local cakes, snacks (popcorn and sweets), as well as an enticing range of soft-drinks, beers and wines.

Our mezzanine level hosts live Celtic acoustic music on Thursday evenings – check our website for details of other events. As a community-owned charitable venture, your visit makes a real contribution to Highland Perthshire too!

For film and event listings, tickets, film reviews and the latest movie news, plus the full story behind the restoration of the Birks, just follow the links here. Don’t forget to find out about our fantastic value family tickets or our much loved “Couples” seats!

Pitlochry Dam & Salmon Ladder

Pitlochry Dam was built between 1947 and 1951 as part of a networks of dams in the Highlands to generate electricity. The River Tummel was dammed, flooding the old Pitlochry Highland Games field, today known as Loch Faskally. Pitlochry Dam & Fish ladder is one of the town's more famous attractions, anyone who has visited Pitlochry has visited the Dam.

The Fish Ladder was built as part of Pitlochry Dam to allow the annual migration of thousands of Atlantic Salmon to pass through the dam wall. The Fish Ladder has a total of 34 chambers or small artificial pools, each one with a water level slightly higher than the one below, a series of steps, gradually taking the fish in to Loch Faskally. The fish swim from one chamber to the next via small circular entrances, which restrict the amount of water flowing from one chamber to the next. There is a viewing room where, if they're lucky, visitors can watch the mighty salmon. The viewing room is in one of the three resting chambers that allow the fish to catch their breath before the swim through the next set of chambers. The fish counter records how many fish have passed through each season.

When the water level in Loch Faskally rises due to heavy rainfall or fast snowmelt the dam gates are opened to allow water to pour into the River Tummel below the dam, the roar of Pitlochry Dam in full-spate is a sound to behold.

Blair Castle

For over 700 years, Blair Castle has acted as gatekeeper to the Scottish Highlands. Today, its turbulent history and its strategic role is in the past - yet, as one of Scotland's best-known visitor attractions, it still introduces many thousands of visitors to the Highlands each year.

Its setting in the Strath of Garry remains magnificent and its white, turreted facade seems to sum up all that people expect of a traditional Scottish castle.

Castle Tour and Gardens

Blair Castle is the seat of the Dukes of Atholl and home to the Atholl Highlanders, Britain's only private army. With some thirty treasure-filled rooms to see, extensive parklands - including Diana's Grove and the restored Hercules Garden - woodland and riverside walks, restaurant and gift shop, Blair Castle makes an ideal day out for all the family.

Entertaining and Activities

Blair Castle makes an ideal venue for Highland Balls, dinners and corporate entertaining. Shooting, fishing and pony trekking is available on the estate.

Activities inside Blair Castle for Children

Take part in the children's Castle Detectives Challenge, use the picture clues provided. Children have to hunt down castle treasures and work out the answers. Parents may also be allowed to join in! The activity sheet is collected in the Castle Entrance Hall and takes children around the castle room by room. There is a children's colouring area in our Treasure Room where children can get creative and their parents can concentrate on the vast array of exhibits.

Click here for a list of Blair Castle events

Click here for a list of Atholl Estates Rangers events

Atholl Country Life Museum

The Good Old Days

We invite you to come and visit our unique and lively museum. It is fun for children, informative and entertaining for all. You can explore the heritage created by previous generations and see how we once lived in Atholl.
Fascinating Displays

* Old Kitchen & Box Bed

* The School, Kirk & Smiddy

* 1930's Post office

* Caledonian Shield for Rifle Shooting, the World's Largest Trophy!

* Outstanding Horse Harness

* Road & Rail Services

* Gamekeeper & Wildlife

* The Doctor's Horse Sleigh

Children

Children can sit in the old school desk, examine the objects in the Kiddies Kist, play with the zoetrope or try the quiz and win an award!

Displays

The Museum has three Galleries containing a total of twenty eight displays together with the recreated Trinafour Post Office.