About Golfing

Craigard House is ideal for golfing holidays. We are 1 mile from Muckhart Golf Course, 8 miles from the Bruce and the Montgomery Courses in Kinross, and just 9 miles from Gleneagles Hotel and Spa Resort. Gleneagles has three of the finest championship golf courses in Scotland: • The famous King’s Course • The secluded Queen’s Course • The PGA Centenary Course – venue for the 40th Ryder Cup Matches in 2014. There is a nine-hole Wee Course and a state of the art Golf Academy. This is a great base for holidays where while the golfers are busy, the non-golfers can visit Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth or Stirling for shopping and city entertainment. Or day trips to local historic sites like Dollar Castle, Loch Leven Castle, climb the Wallace Monument, Stirling Castle, Linlithgow Palace, Doune Castle, Blair Atholl Safari Park and longer days trips to Glencoe and Fife. And for pampering there is are the spas of Crieff Hydro and Gleneagles Hotel.

Other Activities include curling, bird watching, historic houses, gliding, falconry, shooting, pony trekking, racing, off road driving

About Fishing

Fishing is available on Loch Leven, a brown trout fishery for well over 100 years. It is regularly stocked with high quality rainbows. The loch is some 3,500 acres with an average depth of 12 feet making, an ideal water for fishing. The Loch Leven Trout is fast growing with a pink flesh, similar to Sea Trout, and is known for its fighting qualities. The Loch is managed by Loch Leven Fisheries which has a well-maintained fleet of 18-foot clinker built boats.

Salmon fishing is available on the nearby River Tay from mid January until the end of October. April and May being the best time for spring salmon with 30 pound specimens caught most years. By June the first of the grilse arrive and continue to run from then until the autumn when some of these fish have reached very large sizes.

Grayling are not indigenous to the area, but stocked in several of the rivers. Good quality pike, perch and roach can be found throughout the area. Several coarse fisheries contain a variety of species including carp, crucian carp, rudd and tench.

About Scenery/Beauty Spots

Rumbling Bridge Gorge is an amazing natural fault where the River Devon rushes through. Waterfalls such as the Devil's Mill are easily accessible whereas the dramatic Caldron Lynn is a steep scramble, but possibly one of the most picturesque waterfalls in Scotland.

About Children Activities

Curling

About Family Activities

Knockhill Race Circuit. Portmoak Gliding Club is the largest gliding club in Scotland based on the shores of Loch Leven near Kinross, and provides year-round flying and a range of courses.

About Local Attrcations

Knockhill Race Circuit. Portmoak Gliding Club is the largest gliding club in Scotland based on the shores of Loch Leven near Kinross, and provides year-round flying and a range of courses.

About Walking

Lovely local walks, literally right on your doorstep along the Rumbling Bridge Gorge of the River Devon, down to Muckhart Mill and into the Ochils. Easy climbs up Seamab Hill and over Dollar. The Ochils are a ridge of hills above a south-facing escarpment. The highest peak in the Ochils is Ben Cleuch which is 2,363 feet (721 metres) and offers a challenge to any hillwalker intending to reach its summit. There are several other hills including King's Seat Hill (648 metres) above Castle Campbell which perches between the Glens of Care and Sorrow looking out over the plain below as far as the River Forth.

About History

Rumbling Bridge is a small village that takes its name from the double bridge that spans the River Devon Gorge. The lower bridge dates from 1700 with the upper bridge being built over it in the 1800s. The drop down to the gorge is about 120 feet - depending on the water level, which varies dramatically. Craigard House was built in 1905 by Neil McNamara the local hotelkeeper as one of a pair of houses designed to entertain the Edwardian gentry who liked to walk in the Ochils and surrounding area, hunt, shoot and fish. The nearest castle is Loch Leven in the centre of the loch where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned for many years.