Name: The Shelter Stone
Price range: $

Loch Garten Nature Reserve is the perfect place to get close to nature.

If you take a walk along the forest tracks you'll be surrounded by huge, lichen-encrusted Scots pine trees. It's a very peaceful place to be.

One of the walks in the area is the Two Lochs Trail which leads you along a woodland path to Loch Mallachie and Loch Garten. This trail is only 1.7km and suitable for all ages, prams and bikes. There's also the Big Pines Trail which leads you to the Nature Centre, which is open now, until the 31st October.

The Shelter Stone is a large self-catering holiday rental house, located in Aviemore in the Highlands of Scotland.

A traditional stone-built lodge, the family-friendly house sleeps up to 13 across 6 bedrooms. The dramatic landscape of the Cairngorms National Park surrounds Aviemore, which is easily accessible by road and rail - and ideally situated for winter and summer breaks, skiing holidays, walking weekends, golf trips and whisky distillery tours.

Provisional STL: HI-70763-P