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Great hill for Kids near Perth

Sub 2000s: Moncreiffe Hill

Date walked: 05/06/2025

Time taken: 2.5 hours

Distance: 5.5km

Ascent: 160m

Moncreiffe Hill from the North, from Tay Car Park with Kids (12, 15 y/o)

Hill no. 231 - Sub2000 no. 112

Stats:
Total distance - 5.5 km
Total time - 2h31m
Altitude gain - 143 m

It is an easy, pleasant walk with lots of things to interest kids. Several nature-inspired sculptures are hidden in the wood. We managed to find most of them.
After reading a few reports, I decided to do the ascent from the north, starting from Tay Car Park. I read in reports that there are too many dogs. Fortunately, there were only four cars in the car park and most people kept their dogs on a lead when they saw us. However, there was dog poo on the track in several places. Perhaps the ascent from the south, as recommended by the WH route, is quieter. I do not know. However, you would miss most of the interesting wooden sculptures.
The whole walk was on well-maintained paths and tracks. The following map shows the route we took.

Map of our route:

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Elevation profile of our route:
Moncrieffe Hill - Track.png

We started our walk from the large Tay car park. Luckily, we arrived outside of peak times. 8)

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Almost empty Tay Car Park.

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Information board at the car park.

There are a lot of points of interest. We tried to find as much as possible.

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Portal in space.

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Deer.

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Slug.

The hill is also surrounded by lovely nature.

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Interesting growing ladder fern.

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Dragonfly bench.

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One of many viewpoints. Perth in the background.

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Which way now? Mushrooms will show you the right path.

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There used to be a great fort on the top of Moncreiffe Hill.

After about 50 min. from the car park we reached the top of Moncreiffe Hill.

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Conni on the top, Perth in the distance.

We took a different route back to the information board. However, this path is very steep, so I would not recommend taking it when it is wet.

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Steep path back to the information board.

From there, we continued on to the trig pillar, where another fort used to be.

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Information board for the next fort.

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On the site of the old fort, looking towards Bridge of Earn.

From the old fort, we continued along various paths back to the car, keeping an eye out for more wooden sculptures.

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Woodhouse and something.

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Spiders in the wood. (It was not easy to find them.)

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Totem couldn't take it anymore. :)

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Face to face with the hawk.

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Badger.

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Cows and Perth in the background.

Some of the sculptures were easy to find, but others, such as Fox or Faces in the Trees, were more challenging.

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Fox.

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Faces in the Trees.


Although we did not find all the sculptures, it was still a very pleasant walk around the Sub2000 Moncreiffe Hill.

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