Wildlife includes red deer, mountain hares and adders. Glenshee Chairlift Ascends Cairnwell mountain from summit of Britain's highest main-road pass, 3,061ft. Old Spey bridge built in 1750. Kindrochit Castle Grassy embankments, walls of 11th-century fort. Loch an Eilein Remains of 15th-century castle on island in loch surrounded by deep pine and juniper forests.
Wildlife includes roe deer, red squirrels, wildcats, whooper swans, herons and crossbills.
Visitor centre in cottage by loch has small exhibition with displays on the management and conservation of forest. Loch Garten Hide and closed-circuit TV allow viewings of pair of nesting ospreys, for a long time extinct in Scotland. Reserve, much of which is Caledonian pine forest, home to roe deer, red deer, wildcats, red squirrels and crossbills. Lochindorb Shell of 14th-century castle, stronghold of Alexander Stewart, 'Wolf of Badenoch', who terrorised Moray lowlands, stands on island in middle of loch. Area has rolling heather landscape with peat stacks and boggy grassland.