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Start behind the car park, to head north (upstream) on the inland edge of the park, then turn right up a long series of steps. You pass a ‘caleidogira’, a landscape-fracturing kaleidoscope. Turn right along the park top for 200 metres, passing the Tuckie Café hut, to exit onto the road above.

Crieff from Laggan Hill

Turn right for 50 metres and then back left, up Craigard Road. At its top keep ahead into unsurfaced Ancaster Road. Before reaching the Crieff Hydro, turn left up an earth path, to a kissing-gate signposted for The Knock. Continue up the path to another gate into a housing estate. Turn left (waymark arrow ‘The Hosh Walk’) to a road above. The small Knock End car park (my unofficial name) is just to your right.

‘Hydro’ comes from hydropathic, a late 18th-century form of complementary medicine involving drinking nasty water. Today the hotel offers a rich variety of active fun from archery to Zumba (which is leaping up and down to Latin rhythms), also afternoon teas.

Cross the road to a signpost ‘Knock Summit’. Take the wide path uphill. Somewhere hereabouts is the Cradle Stone, a dolerite erratic on the conglomerate of the hill. The path reaches a viewpoint table surrounded by benches at the 244m ‘summit’.