Walks in the Woodland Park

There are four marked walking trails in the Woodland Park. A leaflet with a map showing these can be obtained from the Council Countryside Ranger Service.

The Perth & Kinross Countryside Ranger for Kinnoull Hill Woodland Park is Niall Lobley.

The trails (see map at bottom of page) are:

Nature Walk which is some 2.25 miles long and begins from the Quarry Car Park at Corsiehill. This winds its way around Kinnoull Hill and eventually reaches the top of the hill and passes Kinnoull Tower, the ruined folly high up on the cliffs above the river Tay. It then takes the walker down the hill again and back to the car park.

This walk takes just under two hours at a reasonable pace and can be joined at various points along the route.

Tower Walk again starts from the Quarry Car Park at Corsiehill and is a 2.5 mile walk to the top of the hill, past the Tower and back again. Easy walking.

Takes about one hour and forty minutes and can be started from the Jubilee Car Park at the foot of Deuchney Hill.

Jubilee Walk is a two mile stroll through the Forestry Commission plantations in the Deuchney Wood and round the back of Deuchney Hill. It eventually joins the old Coronation Road which leads from Scone over the back of the hill towards an old crossing point on the Tay.

An hour and twenty minutes is needed for this walk which is on forest roads and woodland paths.

Squirrel Walk is a short level route of three-quarters of mile from the Jubilee Car Park. It takes about 30 minutes and is suitable for wheelchairs.

It passes through mixed woodland and conifer plantings. There is a distant view of the Tay at one point and visitors should look out for red squirrels and jays, noisy birds which are colourful members of the crow family.

Apart from the marked walks there are also many unofficial trails leading randomly through the woods and the bridle trail running across from Barnhill to Corsiehill is walkable and makes an interesting route.

Equally visitors might like to make their own way to the tops of the various hills in the Park – Kinnoull Hill itself with its distant views of much of central Scotland, Barnhill (above the NTS Branklyn Garden) with its view of the city of Perth, Deuchney Wood and the forestry plantation – but still much of it a mixed wood, and Binn Hill which stands by itself in its own woodland further to the East.