Aigas Field Centre, overlooking the River Beauly, was built by wealthy Glasgow shipping magnates despairing to be seen as part of the deer stalking, grouse shooting, salmon fishing craze that propel Scotland into world renown when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert gave the Highlands the royal seal of approval by building Balmoral Castle here in 1853. Aigas was built in 1877 at a time when sporting lodges and fine Balmoral look-alike castles were mushrooming along every glen and beside every loch.

Aigas Field Centre, having guests stay in logs resides in the wooded grounds of the castle and eat and attend lectures in the fine high-ceilinged Victorian rooms of this turreted and battlemented hunting lodge, runs as a working estate.

Over 3,750 Highland school children attend day courses run by our team of young, enthusiastic rangers. There is an annual guest list of over 500 adults in small and large groups, families and individuals from all over the world, many from august institutions such as the Smithsonian, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Harvard Natural History Museum, university alumni and travel groups, and many more who come on their own.

Address:
Beauly Inverness IV4 7AD
Scotland
Tel: 44 0 1463 782443
Fax: 44 0 1463 782097