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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.
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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. |
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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
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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. |
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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
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View of Loch Earn
from Lochside Cottages. |
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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 Scotlands 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. |
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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.
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For current
availability information,
call
HOME AT FIRST
at
(800) 523-5842
or contact us by e-mail:
info@homeatfirst.com
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Lochside Cottages
are among the highest rated lodgings
in Central Scotland
annually by
HOME AT FIRST
guests.
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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. |
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