Loch of the Lowes
Nature Reserves, Country Parks & Beaches · Across Perthshire, Perthshire
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Open now — closes 5pm
🏠 Indoor & outdoor☔ Rainy-day friendly🆓 Free entrySeasonal openingMemberships available🐐 Animals🌲 WoodlandEducational
What’s there
- Café on site
- Parking
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
- Picnic area
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
The car park is situated at the roadside 120m from the visitor centre, and is linked by a wheelchair friendly path. Please note that on some sat-navs, the visitor centre postcode (PH8 0HH) takes you to the opposite end of the loch. In this case, the postcode PH8 0ES appears to work better.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Welcome to Loch of the Lowes Visitor Centre and Wildlife Reserve near Dunkeld. The reserve covers 130 hectares including woodland, freshwater loch and the visitor centre and hides.
All year round the reserve is host to red squirrels, mallards, swans, great-crested grebes, fallow deer and great-spotted woodpeckers. In autumn and winter, the reserve is home to Canada and greylag geese, as well as wigeon, tufted, golden eye and mallard ducks, grey heron and much more. During the spring and summer months the ospreys return to their nest just 150m away from the hides. The loch also hosts breeding swallows and goosander, as well as garden birds in the woodland and three species of bat.
The four-star visitor centre offers spectacular views across the reserve from the hides. Telescopes and binoculars are available to experience wildlife up close, hot drinks and snacks can be purchased and the wildlife-themed gift shop has a variety of products for all ages. With a range of children's activities always available in the children's hide and a large viewing window allowing you to get up close to garden birds, red squirrels and great-spotted woodpeckers, there's something for everyone.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Backseat organiser
- Tissues
- Binoculars
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Audiobook or story CD
- A penForms, competitions, name badges.
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