Highland Perthshire Walking & Cycling: Less than 2km

Loch Dunmore, Faskally Woods

A lovely, safe cycle route, suitable for families with young children around, Loch Dunmore in Faskally Woods. All credit to the Forestry Commission. Ten mins cycle/two mins drive from Pitlochry, Highland Perthshire. Take the old A9, now the B8019, north out of Pitlochry (signed Killiecrankie and Tummel Bridge) for about one mile. There is plenty of parking and toilets too. The route surfaces are suitable for small wheeled bikes and prams. There's lots to see and plenty of places to stop. The path keeps a discrete distance from the water and only offers a few places for access/getting wet!.
This is also the usual location for the famous Enchanted Forest spectacle each autumn: http://enchantedforest.org.uk/

Tips:
Parking and toilets. Picnic areas and benches. Just outside Pitlochry, the whole area is brilliant for visitors.
Faskally Woods are adjacent to Faskally Caravan Site: http://www.faskally.com/
Look out for kingfishers by the loch. Many types of fishes live in the loch including sticklebacks, carp and tench. Coarse fishing available: http://www.fishingnet.com/fishing_clubs/dunmore.htm
In spring the loch and environs are full of frogs and toads. Good place for newts (salamanders) and slow worms too.
Crossbills feed on the cones high in the trees. There's lots of Red Squirrels in Faskally Woods.
The route is designed to be done as a figure of eight and so can be halted after the first circuit if needs be. Older, more confident children can easily be accommodated by the network of informal routes throughout the forest.
Pitliochry is a major tourist centre with a vast range of visitor facilities. The bike shop is on the main street almost opposite the tourist information centre: http://www.escape-route.co.uk/

Faskally Woods

Older, confident children and adult beginners will find it fun and gently challenging on hybrids or mountain bikes.
Cycle out from Pitlochry or Faskally Caravan Park, it's ten minutes in either direction to the Forestry Commission Faskally Woods car park and toilets.
The route is a circuit around Loch Dunmore through Faskally Woods, starting at the carpark and toilets. The woods are the location for the Enchanted Forest spectacle in autumn

Tips:
The network of informal trails associated with this route offers huge potential to entertain the non-conformist, rebellious yoofs who really don't want to be on holiday with you anyway!
Sensible newcomers will stick to this route until they feel more confident! Over ambitious riders (usually Dads), who haven't been on a bike much recently, will at least find privacy when resting foreheads on handlebars prior to continuing on their chosen alternative trail!

Grandtully to Pitnacree Bridge

This waymarked path takes you from the tiny village of Grandtully through fields to just near the Pitnacree Bridge over the River Tay. From here, you can carry on along the quiet B898 towards Balnaguard and the Castle Dow path.

Ben Lawers Nature Trail

The Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve is a range of mountains, connecting ridges, cliffs and lochans, home to the most celebrated collection of mountain plants in Britain, surviving outliers of the arctic and alpine floras. This nature walk gives you an insight into the area's riches.

Kilvrecht (Rannoch Forest)

A circular route that crosses the Carie Burn and takes the higher broad forest path above the Kilvrecht Campsite before crossing the confluence of the Carie Burn and Allt na Bogair before teturning to the start.

This, and two other paths (Allt na Bogair and Carie Walk walks), begin from the Carie Car Park, three miles west of Kinloch Rannoch.