Scottish winter roads. Access to the Glenshee Highlands ski area, Cairnwell Pass on the A93 between Glenshee & Braemar, Scotland, Perthshire, UK


Braemar, or Braigh Mharr in Gaelic is the highest and most mountainous parish in the UK, with each of its 182,000 acres being more than 1000ft above sea level. The area contains within its borders some 24 Munros, or mountains of over 3,000ft, with three over 4,000ft. It is also the only parish in the country to border with four of the old counties (Banffshire, Inverness-shire, Perthshire and Angus). It has the highest 18-hole golf course in the country, and shares with Perthshire the Cairnwell Pass, at 2,100ft the highest through road in the country, which on the Braemar side passes through the Glenshee Ski Centre


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Location: The Spittal of Glenshee, Scotland uk
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