Local Area Events

What's On - Important local events in 2012.

Our local tourist association website is www.rannochscotland.co.uk where you can find lots of information about the local area. 

Visitscotland Perthshire Website - Here you can find a list of events happening in Perthshire over the year. Click on Eventful Perthshire then fill in dates that interest you and highlight Pitlochry and Highland Perthshire then click Search.

Etape Caledonia - Held on a Sunday in May each year - Around the Pitlochry/Strathtummel/Rannoch/Strathtay area. Closed-road race of 80 miles for very fit cyclists.

Atholl Gathering & Highland Games - held on the bank holiday weekend at the end of May each year - Blair Castle.  Traditional games with the heavy events, pipes and drums, highland dancing, market stalls, children's rides.

Rannoch Highland Gathering - Always held on the third Saturday in August in the Weller Pooley Park at Kinloch Rannoch, this typical local highland games, the genuine article, is not specially laid on for tourists. It includes tossing the caber, highland dancing, hill race (anyone over 15 can enter the latter but you need to be fit!) Also races for children, sales of cakes and plants etc in aid of local charities, delicious barbeque, tea tent... Join the fun.

Blair Castle International Horse Trials-  Held each year around the third or fourth week in August.  An important international 4-day-event horse trials with a country fair and shopping village. Great fun for all the family at Blair Castle.

Scottish Game Fair - At Scone Palace.  Generally  held first weekend of July each year - Excellent fun for all the family.  Main ring events, fabulous food, extensive shopping.  Falconry displays, gun dog displays, shooting and fishing competitions.

Highland Nights - 30th May to 5 Sept - Every Monday 7.45 to 9.15pm at Pitlochry Recreation Ground (Town Hall, if wet).  Traditional Scottish entertainment with the Vale of Atholl Pipe Band, country dancing displays, Scottish songs and accordion music. £5/£1.

Enchanted Forest - Starts 5th October 2012.  Perthshire Big Tree Country's award winning The Enchanted Forest sound and light show is a feast for your senses. The event takes place at the Explorers Garden by the theatre close to Pitlochry annually.  Box Office: Just the Ticket, 89 Atholl Road, Pitlochry.