The Pitlochry Highland Games is one of the busiest weekends of the year in Pitlochry, attracting thousands of people to the town.
The games need to attract in excess of 5,000 paying spectators each year. The money raised goes to cover the costs of organising and running the event. As you would expect the weather plays a big part in deciding how many people turn up on the day.
The Highland Games is very much a traditional Highland Games, celebrating Scottish Highland culture and heritage, especially that of the Scottish Highlands. Events include:-
• Pipe Band Competitions
• Solo Piping
• Highland Dancing
• Tossing the Caber
• Throwing the Hammer
• Putting the Stone (the origins of the modern event ‘Putting the Shot’)
• Tug of War
• Track Events, (cycling, high jump, long jump, cycling, adult and children foot races).
• Finale of the Massed Pipe band Parade.
The events staged at the Pitlochry Highland Games in recent years are remarkably similar to those featuring in the Games Programme one hundred years earlier.
Pitlochry Highland Games are at the end of the Scottish Highland Games Season and are always very popular with visitors to Scotland.
