I used to live overlooking the Falls of Dochart in Killin.
Our parking places and house frontage were clearly paved with bricks, the neighbours with gravel, all with plant pots, small fences across boundary etc.
The road outside however has no pavement and does get busy.
This led to many visitors walking across our paved area. The vast majority were respectful and looking the other way at the view.
A few each day in the season would look into what was our downstairs children's bedrooms, a few more would actually park in the front garden due to the double yellows.
Once we had someone park for 4 days(!) as they headed off for a canoe down the Tay. Once a Land Rover owners club actually drove into our back garden en-masse when they mistook two of our work vehicles (LR 110) as one of their club....! I once had someone park, refuse to move when asked nicely as we needed the space for work vehicles, and returned to find 4 minibuses and trailers blocking them in as my staff had a break while waiting for next school group - my staff team having thought that I had a shiny new car
Yes it irked at times, but the vast, vast majority of people were respectful and frankly out enjoying the countryside. There were issues at times, but they were both minor and few. Was it worth lots of signs, arguments and 'pushing water uphill'? Was the walking across the first metre or so of our land unreasonable on a busy road? Even when things were frustrating (cars parked in our front garden mainly) it wasn't that big an issue.
It seems to me that the homeowners in this thread are both the wrong side of the access law and the wrong side of Rule No.1 in life. I benefit from Scotland's balanced Access Laws - and when we lived in Killin, in that spot, it was a part of life that tourists came to visit. It really didn't dictate our life and really wasn't that big an issue - even when I found the 10+ Landrovers parked on our lawn....!
Anyway, this was the view from our lounge as compensation for the visitors.
Dochart by
Matt Robinson, on Flickr