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LOCHSIDE COTTAGES

All Photos © Home At First    

Living room at a Lochside Cottage
showing functional wood stove for
supplemental or ornamental use.
Cottages have efficient individual
 electric heat registers in each room.

        Home At First’s Lochside Cottages are set in an authentic stone barn recently converted into three comfortable accommodations with all the modern conveniences. A fourth lodging is the neighboring purpose-built Castle View Lodge. All of these comfortable two-story vacation cottages provide a rustic wood and stone ambiance that reflects the traditional styles of the Scottish Highlands. Each has two double bedrooms (one with double bed; one with twin beds), a modern kitchen, a full bath, and a living and dining area with a wood-burning stove for cozy evening fires.

at Lochside Cottages and Castle View Lodge have their own home on-site. They take an active interest in their guests, and are enthusiastic and very knowledgeable about Lochearnhead and Central Scotland.

Fully-equipped kitchen
at a Lochside Cottage.

CASTLEVIEW LODGE

        Lochside Cottages and Castle View Lodge sit on a quiet hillside location with a grand southern view overlooking Loch Earn and the high mountains (and Edinample Castle) directly across the water. The cottages are located less than one-half mile east of Lochearnhead village on the western end of six-mile-long Loch Earn.
        Lochearnhead, though just a village, has three restaurants (two with pubs), a post office, and a small store. Driving 10-30 minutes north, east, or south

leads to larger towns of Killin, Crieff, and Callander, which have larger groceries, several restaurants, many other shops, including some noted woolen mills, as well as regional tourist offices for the Trossachs, the Highlands, and Rob Roy country.

        Lochearnhead is within the confines of Scotland’s first national park, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. This southern part of the Scottish Highlands is best known for their bad-boy favorite son, Rob Roy MacGregor. Rob Roy is the legendary Scottish patriot whose infamous cattle rustling, inter-clan feuding, and Highland high jinks made him something of a Celtic Jesse James to the Crown’s red-coated army of Scottish occupation. Although it’s impossible to know where his legend ends

View of Loch Earn
from Lochside Cottages.

and historical reality begins, the Rob Roy story only adds dimension and color to the already mystical landscape of mountains, glens, lochs, heather, and gorse that adorn Central Scotland’s Highlands.
        Lochearnhead is virtually the geographic center of Scotland. Its central location makes it a great base from which the Highlands, the Inner Hebrides isles, coastal lands east and west, and the great Scottish cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Inverness can be reached in a series of day trips by car.

The friendly hosts at
Lochside Cottages &
Castle View Lodge.

        Although it’s easy to use Central Scotland as a touring base from which to explore far and wide, Central Scotland is itself worthy of exploration. The central Scotland region’s beauty, its friendly, welcoming residents, its castles, golf courses, Highland Games festivals, challenging hiking, salmon fishing, woolen mills, cozy pubs, fine restaurants, and many other attractions combine to give it the best of Scotland.
        Lochside Cottages and Castle View Lodge are just minutes from the home and burial place of Rob Roy MacGregor, in the midst of superb scenery: mountains, fields, and lochs in the beautiful heart of Rob Roy country. There are easy strolls and more challenging hikes, as well as superb cycling on dedicated National Route 7 very near the cottages in beautiful Scottish scenery where Rob Roy roamed 300 years ago but would easily recognize today.

For current availability information,
call HOME AT FIRST at (800) 523-5842
or contact us by e-mail: info@homeatfirst.com



Lochside Cottages are among the highest rated lodgings
in Central Scotland annually by HOME AT FIRST guests.

An abandoned railway line adjoining
the Lochside Cottages now serves as
a traffic-free walkway/cycleway with
quick access (5 min. on foot & 2 min.
by bike) into Lochearnhead village.

Learn more about HOME AT FIRST's travel program to: CENTRAL SCOTLAND.