When is this event?
Scalan was originally the site of a secret Roman Catholic seminary where priests, known as ‘heather priests’ were trained during the 1700s when Catholicism was prohibited.
Join Glenlivet & Inveravon Heritage Ranger Lydia on a guided tour of the site and the mill buildings. In addition to being of historical interest, this beautiful corner of Glenlivet Estate abounds with oystercatchers, curlews, and lapwings in the spring and summer months – be sure to bring your binoculars if you have them.
This event is free but donations are appreciated and go towards the upkeep of the site.
“Glenlivet it has castles three, Drumin, Blairfindy and Deskie”.
This Heritage Ranger led castle walk will take us to the 16th century tower house of Blairfindy and begins outside the iconic Glenlivet Distillery.
On the walk in we’ll enjoy fantastic views over the glen.
You’ll learn a bit about Glenlivet’s rich history and some whisky history too.
Join Cairngorms Astronomy Club and TGDT in The Square, Tomintoul for a moon viewing session. This is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface.
We’ll have the Celestron telescope and a smartphone bracket that will allow you to take the moon home in your pocket!
As we will be outside, please dress up warm for changeable weather.
Children are very welcome.
Please note that toilet facilities are not available on site.
Funded by Foundation Scotland from the Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund.
Come along and celebrate our Dark Sky Park with a telescope session focused on galaxies.
Hopefully we’ll see our nearest neighbouring galaxy Andromeda, which is the furthest object we can see with the naked eye at 2.5 million light-years away!
Join us for tea, telescopes and brain tingling space facts…
Funded by Foundation Scotland from the Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund.
Sustainable Strathspey’s next Climate Cafe will be on Thursday 23rd February at 7.30pm in the Grant Arms, The Square, Grantown.
Lynn and Sandra of Lynbreck Croft will be talking to us about their farm and their efforts to work with nature to produce food for their local community.
Find out more about their amazing story here: https://www.lynbreckcroft.co.uk/ or, indeed, in their book: https://www.lynbreckcroft.co.uk/our-book/
Non-members welcome.
Boat of Garten Outdoor Car Boot Sale!
Sunday 4th June from 12 noon until 3pm.
Running alongside a Community Cafe!
Book a stall for £10 by contacting the Hall: info@boathall.org.uk | 01479 831123
A dino-tastic family day out filled with dinosaur themed activities, competitions and fab prizes up for grabs.
What’s included?
All our Winter attractions, NetworX(NEW)- Scotland’s first aerial net challenge, Ancient Forest Twilights a pine forest illumination walk available from 16:30-18:30 plus FREE Glitter Face Painting so you can transform into your inner dinosaur.
What’s more-come meet our very realistic 22 roaring dinosaurs or uncover an entire T-rex Fossil in Dinosaur Kingdom. You can embark on a Tricersatops hunt to find Baby Tia and visit our very own Dinosaur Hatchery.
Great competition activities- take on our Dino Foil Balloon Challenge for a chance to win a 20+ item ‘Dinosaur Goody Bag’! ‘Attack of the Robosaur Clones’, find all the Robosaur clones in Bamboozeleum for a chance to win your very own Robotic Dinosaur! Join us in your costumes and share your photos of your visit to enter our ‘Best Dressed Dino’ Photo Competition- we will be giving away an Annual Pass for 4, to one lucky winner!
If you have a little ‘Dinosaur fan’ at home our ‘Dino Days’ are an ideal treat for them.
This year, the Cairngorms Nature BIG Weekend has evolved into a whole ten days of events, challenges, activities and fun across the National Park.
Running from the 12th-21st May, there will be family events, guided nature walks, adventure activities, Estate tours, conservation highlights and more!
Check out our new website for everything that is going on – ‘Cairngorms Nature’ on Facebook and Twitter are also great for updates!
Image credits Rachel Keenan/CNPA
Eventing, or Horse Trials, is the ultimate equestrian challenge, likened to an equine triathlon; it provides a comprehensive test of all-round ability for horse and rider and also tests the partnership between the two.
Despite being sometimes called ‘three-day eventing’, the modern sport usually takes place over four days, as the dressage phase takes two days to complete. However, each horse and rider combination will only compete in three phases, on three days, with a rest day on one of the dressage days.
The four-day event is a great family day out for all. With an abundance of food stalls such as Fox Hat, Lemon Squeezy and Persie Gin, there is also plenty of shopping if you’re looking for some retail therapy.
Come and say goodbye to winter time and hello to Daylight Saving Hours in the magical landscape of the Northern Cairngorms. In collaboration with Alison from Adventures for the Soul, we’re marking the change of time with a trip back in time to walk around the Northern Cairngorms at twilight into night. We’ll be exploring our senses using some mindfulness techniques to give us the wow factor, and if we get clear skies, we’ll look at the universe and our place in it.
Winter is never far off in the Cairngorms. It is Britain’s highest, coldest and windiest plateau, retaining relics from the ice age. This time of year it could still be full winter up on the plateau. However, unless we get a calm night and some snow-free lower hills, we’ll be lower down in the forests among the pine.
During these evenings, we explore deep time geology, deep history, the stars and planets as well as our own senses walking at night.
Late winter, early spring in the Cairngorms is absolutely incredible. The winter snow often still glitters in the setting sun whereas it can get warm in the glens lower down during the day.
Where is this event being held?
How to get to the Carrachs car park: Turn east off the B9008 at Auchnarrow (signposted for Scalan) and follow this road right to the end ensuring to follow sign for Chapeltown of Glenlivet. If you are using a navigation system, the postcode AB37 9JS will take you most of the way to Chapeltown of Glenlivet. Drive past Braeval Distillery and at the road end follow the 90-degree right hand turn which leads to the car park. This track is quite potholed and uneven in places so please proceed slowly and carefully.
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