1. Dalwhinnie

The Trail starts in Dalwhinnie, located on the A889 just off the A9. Click here for The highest village in the Highlands (1188 feet above sea level).Dalwhinnie developed around an inn built in 1729 on the new Perth to Inverness military road. It was a meeting place for drovers and you can still walk the drove road to Kinloch Laggan. While there visit the Dalwhinnie Visitor Centre.

Dalwhinnie Distillery

Dalwhinnie distillery, one of the highest distilleries in Scotland - and a weather station! In Gaelic, Dalwhinnie means meeting place, and in times gone by drovers, driving their herds from the North and West Highlands would gather here before continuing to the markets in the South. These days, people travelling between Inverness and Perth break their journey with a guided tour around our distillery. If you can make it up to the Highlands one day, we'd be delighted to see you, show you round our distillery which is over 100 years old and toast your health with a dram of our gentle spirit.

On leaving the village follow the A889 (General Wade's Military Road) to Laggan.