Killin Highland Games
Athletes race up Sron a'Chlachain in a punishing hill race while pipers march over the Falls of Dochart bridge at the western end of Loch Tay.
A small but genuinely rewarding Highland conservation village whose Category A bridge over the thundering Falls of Dochart, layer upon layer of clan history, and honest ring of cafes and outdoor shops make it well worth a half-day stop, especially for walkers using it as a base for Ben Lawers or the Rob Roy Way.
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"Games Park in this Victorian spa village on the foot of the Ochil Hills has hosted Highland games since 1861, one of the oldest continuously running games in the world, held in a village that Victorian visitors came to for its mineral springs and where the air still seems clearer than the surrounding Forth valley."
Bridge of Allan Highland Games
"A small Highland village fills with musicians every June. The mountains are the backdrop and the sessions go late."
Killin Music Fest
"Three private gardens open in a Stirlingshire village at the foot of the Campsie Fells, from a tiny walled garden with a topiary rabbit to a Victorian arbour with views of the hills."
Gardens of Milton of Campsie
"Keir Mains near Dunblane hosts this one-day agricultural show at the heart of Central Scotland, where Highland and Lowland farming traditions meet in the shadow of the Ochil Hills and livestock from the Forth valley and the Trossachs compete for cups that have been given out here for over a century."
Doune and Dunblane Show
"This village on the edge of the Forth carse holds its games in the shadow of a ruined castle, an intimate gathering where the heavy athletes compete while the Ochil Hills and the Wallace Monument are both visible on the horizon and the Forth bends around the grounds."
Airth Highland Games
"Caber-tossing and Highland dancing come to the Alice Littler Memorial Park in the heart of Speyside whisky country."
Aberlour Strathspey Highland Games
"Massed pipe bands lead the chieftain's parade from the Bridge Hotel to Couper Park in this small fishing village on the far northeast coast."
Helmsdale and District Highland Games
"The last free games in the Highlands, where Games Day on the seaside Links feels like New Year, opened by Lord Cawdor himself."
Nairn Highland Games
"Scotland's premier sheepdog competition over four days at Letham Farm in the Ochil Hills, where the nation's finest handlers qualify for the International and the once-every-three-years World Trial."
Scottish National Sheepdog Trials
"Heavy events, wrestling and a 10K road race come to The Stadium in the genteel Victorian island resort of Rothesay."
Bute Highland Games
"A secluded Perthshire glen games in the hills above Blairgowrie, where the heavy events take place on a field ringed by heather moorland and the highland dancing stage backs onto birch woodland."
Strathardle Highland Games