Managing For Visitors Plan

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Man­aging for Vis­it­ors Plan 2023

Back­ground and Stra­tegic Context

I. The sum­mers of 2020 and 2021 were unpre­ced­en­ted in terms of the changes that were seen in vis­it­or dis­tri­bu­tion and beha­viour in the Park. A com­bin­a­tion of cir­cum­stances, includ­ing the eas­ing of lock­down policies and the desire of vis­it­ors to exper­i­ence the out­doors and nature, put sig­ni­fic­ant new pres­sures on cer­tain loc­a­tions in the Park.

1. New arrange­ments for man­aging for vis­it­ors were put in place with part­ners dur­ing this time. These arrange­ments were com­pre­hens­ively reviewed by the CNPA Board in Decem­ber 2021 papers are avail­able at https://​cairngorms​.co​.uk/​w​o​r​k​i​n​g​-​t​o​g​e​t​h​e​r​/​m​e​e​t​i​n​g​s​/​m​e​e​t​i​n​g​/​b​o​a​r​d​-2021 – 11- 26/. These arrange­ments were con­tin­ued for 2022.

2. Look­ing for­wards, the CNPA is com­mit­ted to work­ing with part­ners as part of the nation­al vis­it­or man­age­ment frame­work to deliv­er high-qual­ity vis­it­or exper­i­ences with­in the Park. In late 2021 the CNPA con­sul­ted on the Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan (2023−2028). The con­sulta­tion promp­ted a record level of pub­lic response and feed­back. NPP4 includes sev­er­al object­ives relat­ing to vis­it­or man­age­ment in Table I below.

Table I- NPP4 Priorities

Theme	Object­ive	Tar­get	Rel­ev­ant Actions	NPP4 Policy
A7- Fire	Ensure that all manged burn­ing fol­lows best prac­tice as defined by muirburn	Reduce wild­fire risk by devel­op­ing an integ­rated wild­fire man­age­ment plan for the Nation­al Park	Devel­op and agree a Nation­al Park approach on camp­fires and barbecues	C4- Redu­cing fire risk by lim­it­ing or exclud­ing bar­be­cues and open fires in key areas of the Nation­al Park such as in areas of wood­land and peatland
Man­age­ment	licens­ing scheme, sup­port­ing hab­it­at res­tor­a­tion and recovery
A13- Spe­cies	Ensure spe­cies thrive in the Nation­al Park	Spe­cies recovery	Deliv­er a work pro­gramme to sup­port capercaillie	A6-Min­im­ising dis­turb­ance to sens­it­ive spe­cies in par­tic­u­lar loc­a­tions at cer­tain times of the year.
Recov­ery				B3- Identi­fy­ing areas where par­tic­u­lar man­age­ment meas­ures are needed in rela­tion to deliv­er­ing a high qual­ity vis­it­or exper­i­ence, whilst
				safe­guard­ing sens­it­ive spe­cies and environments.
				B3- Pro­mot­ing respons­ible beha­viour in enjoy­ing and man­aging access.
B10- A Park for	There will be bet­ter oppor­tun­it­ies for every­one to enjoy the National	Vis­it­ors to the National	• Review Act­ive Cairngorms	B3- Identi­fy­ing areas where par­tic­u­lar man­age­ment meas­ures are needed in rela­tion to deliv­er­ing a high qual­ity vis­it­or exper­i­ence, whilst
All	Park and the vis­it­or pro­file will be more diverse, espe­cially with	Park will more closely		safe­guard­ing sensitive
	regards to people who are dis­abled, LGB­TQ+ and from minority	resemble the overall
		demo­graphy of Scotland.

Theme	Object­ive	Tar­get	Rel­ev­ant Actions	NPP4 Policy
	with key assemblages across the Cairngorms with­in semi-nat­ur­al landscape		con­ser­va­tion in the Cairngorms, based on best avail­able evidence
Object­ive	and eth­nic groups
C8- Access­ible	Improve path, cycle and out­door access net­works to give out­stand­ing oppor­tun­it­ies to exper­i­ence the nat­ur­al and	Increase the num­ber of kilo­metres of safe and inclus­ive off road or segreg­ated on-road routes between com­munit­ies by 2030.	• Review Act­ive Cairngorms: • Com­plete exten­sion of Deeside Way to Brae­mar: • Increase	B3- Identi­fy­ing areas where par­tic­u­lar man­age­ment meas­ures are needed in rela­tion to deliv­er­ing a high qual­ity vis­it­or exper­i­ence, whilst safe­guard­ing sens­it­ive spe­cies and environments.
path and cycle	cul­tur­al her­it­age of the Nation­al park to the widest range people, while min­im­ising dis­turb­ance to vulnerable		pro­mo­tion of Spey­side Way and provide options for cyc­ling • Con­sider all potential
net­work	spe­cies, hab­it­ats and sites.		mech­an­isms to recue dis­turb­ance on key spe­cies and recre­ation­al impacts on high
			ground.
C9- High quality	Wel­come vis­it­ors and provide a high qual­ity exper­i­ence while man­aging their impacts through provid­ing better	Num­ber of pub­lic toi­lets with­in the Nation­al Park main­tained Increased pub­lic toi­let facil­it­ies for people with a addi­tion­al needs.	• Devel­op and imple­ment Act­ive Cairngorms Action Plan: • Sup­port the implementation	B3- Identi­fy­ing areas where par­tic­u­lar man­age­ment meas­ures are needed in rela­tion to deliv­er­ing a high qual­ity vis­it­or exper­i­ence, whilst safe­guard­ing sens­it­ive spe­cies and environments.
vis­it­or	infra­struc­ture and high qual­ity ranger services		of the Cairngorm Masterplan

1. Fur­ther work will be under­taken on a num­ber of action plans includ­ing the Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Action Plan, Stra­tegic Infra­struc­ture Plan and Act­ive Cairngorms (cov­er­ing out­door access, recre­ation, health, volun­teer­ing and the man­age­ment for visitors).

2. It is anti­cip­ated the Man­aging for Vis­it­ors Plan will be embed­ded in the Act­ive Cairngorms Action Plan, due to be revised and pub­lished by the end of 2023. In the mean­time this plan is in place for the 2023 season.

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Objectives

1. The object­ives for the Man­aging for Vis­it­ors Plan 2023 are to: • Provide a warm wel­come and sup­port excep­tion­al exper­i­ences for the pub­lic to enjoy the out­doors • Mit­ig­ate any neg­at­ive impacts from increased recre­ation in sens­it­ive or pop­u­lar sites • Reduce poten­tial con­flict between res­id­ents and vis­it­ors • Secure the con­fid­ence of the Park’s com­munit­ies that the Park’s spe­cial qual­it­ies are being well- man­aged and cared for • Pro­mote col­lab­or­a­tion across estate and organ­isa­tion­al bound­ar­ies ensur­ing a pos­it­ive vis­it­or exper­i­ence. Key Partners
2. Col­lab­or­a­tion with part­ners is key to the suc­cess­ful deliv­ery of these object­ives. At a region­al level the key part­ners to CNPA are: • Loc­al Author­it­ies • Cairngorms Busi­ness Part­ner­ship • Part­ner Ranger Ser­vices • Land Man­agers • Owners/​managers of key vis­it­or sites • NatureScot • Police Scot­land • Scot­tish Fire and Res­cue • Volun­teers and Volun­teer Rangers
3. The work with all part­ners will be facil­it­ated by advice from the fol­low­ing partnership/​advisory groups: • Man­aging for Vis­it­ors Group – meet­ing every two weeks from East­er to Octo­ber and monthly in winter to provide oper­a­tion­al guid­ance, net­work­ing and sup­port to staff under­tak­ing on-the-ground activ­ity • Cairngorms Tour­ism Part­ner­ship (CTP) – meet­ing roughly quarterly to focus on review of Tour­ism Action Plan • Cairngorms Loc­al Out­door Access For­um – meet­ing roughly quarterly to advise on man­age­ment of out­door access issues. Focus
4. The Cairngorms Nation­al Park is the largest Nation­al Park in the UK and much of it is remote, moun­tain­ous and rel­at­ively inac­cess­ible. The vast major­ity of

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY vis­it­ors behave very respons­ibly and the man­age­ment issues caused are gen­er­ally loc­al­ised and the loc­a­tions pre­dict­able. It is unreal­ist­ic and unne­ces­sary to imple­ment all man­age­ment meas­ures equally across the Park, giv­en staff­ing and resources. How­ever, it is essen­tial to imple­ment con­fid­ently and con­sist­ently the clear, simple mes­saging about the import­ance of safe, respons­ible and enjoy­able beha­viour in the Park.

1. The focus of man­aging for vis­it­ors meas­ures will be on the pro­act­ive, safe man­age­ment of key coun­tryside sites sim­pli­fied into two broad areas: • Rur­al ​“hot spots” • Rur­al ​“warm spots” These are iden­ti­fied in Table 2. A risk rat­ing for each site iden­ti­fied is giv­en as follows:

Risk Rat­ing	Descrip­tion
Red	Very pop­u­lar, pinch points on trails, could be on a dead end road, lim­ited park­ing and over­spill sites, pop­u­lar hills or beauty spots, bridges, heav­ily pro­moted by 3rd parties, close to main trans­port routes i.e. trunk roads and access­ible from large towns.
Yel­low	Pop­u­lar, park­ing pre­vi­ously suf­fi­cient for level of use, set­ting off point for hills or beauty spots and pro­moted by 3rd parties, likely to exper­i­ence over­spill from nearby pop­u­lar sites.

Table 2- Rur­al ​“Hot­spots” and ​“Warm Spots” | Key Coun­tryside Loc­a­tion | Risk | Man­ager | Roads Author­ity | On-site sup­port (includ­ing estim­ated FTE cov­er­age) | | — — — — — — — — — — — — — -| — — — — | — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -| — — — — — — — — -| — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -| | Muir of Din­net | Yel­low | NatureScot | Aber­deen­shire | SNH Site Man­ager and Aber­deen­shire Ranger | | Din­net Bridge | Yel­low | Din­net Estate | Aber­deen­shire | CNPA Ranger Ser­vice | | Cam­bus o May | Yel­low | FLS | Aber­deen­shire | FLS Ranger (0.1) | | Cam­bus o May Bridge | Red | Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil, Din­net Estate and Inch­mar­noch Estate | Aber­deen­shire | CNPA Ranger Service |

Glen Tanar	Red	Glen Tanar Estate/​Char­it­able Trust	Aber­deen­shire	GTCT Ranger Ser­vice (1.4)
Loch Muick	Red	Bal­mor­al Estate	Aber­deen­shire	Bal­mor­al Ranger Ser­vice (2)
Kei­loch Car Park	Yel­low	Inver­cauld Estate	Aber­deen­shire	Inver­cauld Estate Ranger
Linn of Dee	Yel­low	NTS	Aber­deen­shire	NTS Ranger Ser­vice (2)
Glen Clova/​Glen Doll	Red	FLS / Angus Alive/​NatureScot	Angus	AA Ranger Ser­vice (2)
Glen Mark	Yel­low	Angus Coun­cil and Dal­housie Estates	Angus	CNPA Sea­son­al Ranger
Kil­liecrankie	Yel­low	NTS	Perth and Kinross	NTS Ranger
Beinn a Ghlo (car park)	Yel­low	Lude Estate	Perth & Kinross	No ranger service
Falls of Bruar	Red	Atholl Estate and House of Bruar	Perth and Kinross	Atholl Estates
Glen Fesh­ie (car park)	Yel­low	Achlean Croft	High­land Council	Land man­ager sup­por­ted by CNPA Ranger Service
Uath Lochans	Yel­low	FLS	High­land Council	FLS Ranger (0.1)
Fesh­ie Bridge	Yel­low	FLS	High­land Council	FLS Ranger (0.1)
Lag­gan Wolftrax	Yel­low	FLS and Lag­gan Forest Trust	High­land Council	FLS Ranger (0.1) and LFT staff
Loch an Eilien	Red	Rothiemurchus	High­land Council	Rothiemurchus Estate Ranger Ser­vice (2)
Glen­more	Yel­low	FLS	High­land Council	FLS Ranger Ser­vice (2)
Cairngorm Moun­tain	Yel­low	HIE	High­land Council	CM Ranger Ser­vice (2)
Loch Vaa	Yel­low	Seafield Estate	High­land Councill	Land man­agers sup­por­ted by CNPA Ranger Service

Loch Pity­oul­ish	Yel­low	Pity­oul­ish	Pity­oul­ish Estate	CNPA Ranger Service
Loch Garten	Red	RSPB Scot­land	High­land Council	RSPB Com­munity Ranger and estate staff (0.3)
Grant­own – River Spey beach area and cemetery	Yel­low	High­land Coun­cil and Seafield Estate	High­land Councill	Land man­agers sup­por­ted by CNPA Ranger Service
Glen­liv­et Estate	Yel­low	Crown Estate Scotland	Moray Coun­cil	CES Ranger (0.5)
Glenshee/​Snow Roads Scen­ic Route south of Braemar	Yel­low	Vari­ous	Aberdeenshire/​Perth and Kinross Council	Land man­agers sup­por­ted by CNPA Ranger Service

Man­aging for Vis­it­ors Measures

1. Suc­cess­ful man­age­ment for vis­it­ors is based on good com­mu­nic­a­tion between part­ners, suit­able infra­struc­ture, con­tin­ued pub­lic engage­ment and risk man­age­ment. All of these ele­ments are under-pinned and guided by con­tin­ued mon­it­or­ing and evaluation.
2. Table 3 sets out the pri­or­ity actions to be taken for­ward across the Park in 2023. Table 3 – Pri­or­it­ies for Man­aging for Vis­it­ors in 2023

   Pri­or­ity	Actions
   Com­mu­nic­a­tions	• Coordin­ated mes­saging by Man­aging for Vis­it­ors and Col­lab­or­a­tion on #Cairngorm­s­To­geth­er and Tread­Lightly cam­paign with CBP and oth­ers • Deploy­ment and updat­ing of vari­able mes­sage elec­tron­ic signs at key loc­a­tion • Deliv­er nation­al comms cam­paigns at region­al level • New com­mis­sioned cam­paign focus­sing on (i.) responsible
   	dog walk­ing, (ii.) wild­fires, (iii.) park­ing, (iv.) vis­it­ors under­es­tim­at­ing risks eg hav­ing the wrong kit, (v.) wild swim­ming and water safety, (vi.) lit­ter and out­door toi­let­ing, (vii.) wild camp­ing, and (viii.) the cumu­lat­ive impacts of vis­it­or activity.
   Wild Fire	• Update guid­ance on open fires and barbecues
   Pre­ven­tion	• Pro­duce a respons­ible out­door cook­ing leaflet

Man­aging inform­al camp­ing pres­sures	Dis­cour­age inap­pro­pri­ate camp­ing Pro­mote form­al camp­sites Pilot hab­it­at recov­ery meas­ures at key loc­a­tions Deliv­er tar­geted Duke of Edin­burgh Award exped­i­tion messaging
Park­ing management	Ranger patrols at key camp­ing hot­spots. Encour­age respons­ible park­ing Encour­age altern­at­ive ways of access­ing sites
Vis­it­or Infrastructure	Begin imple­ment­a­tion of pro­jects iden­ti­fied in Stra­tegic Tour­ism Infra­struc­ture Plan Vis­it­or Infra­struc­ture Improve­ment Pro­gramme grants admin­istered by CNPA
Pub­lic toilets	Pro­mo­tion of pub­lic toi­let provision
Pro­moted paths and pop­u­lar moun­tain paths	Com­munity path net­works will be well sign pos­ted Pro­moted paths on key hot­spots will be main­tained to a high stand­ard Refreshed approach to path and sign con­di­tion mon­it­or­ing using digit­al technology
Ranger patrols	Ranger Patrols at key sens­it­ive times Com­mu­nic­a­tion across Ranger fam­ily using whats app Pop up events tar­get­ing key mes­sages i.e. respons­ible toileting
Land man­age­ment support	Pro­vi­sion of sign tem­plates and guid­ance to provide con­sist­ent messaging
Stat­utory measures	Man­age­ment agree­ments and guidelines at key vis­it­or hot­spots and sens­it­ive sites
Enhanced Police Presence	Enhanced police pres­ence to be deployed in Glen­more dur­ing school sum­mer hol­i­days (FLS, CNPA and THC)
Lit­ter	Cairngorms Lit­ter Net­work to pro­mote com­munity- led volun­teer­ing in part­ner­ship with Keep Scot­land Beau­ti­ful Ranger patrols to sup­port land-man­agers and com­munit­ies at key sites

Ranger Ser­vice priorities

1. The Part­ner­ship Frame­work for Ranger Ser­vices in the Park sets out the vis­ion for Ranger Ser­vices: A high-pro­file net­work of Cairngorms’ rangers con­nect­ing people with an out­stand­ing Nation­al Park. They work col­lab­or­at­ively to provide an innov­at­ive, inspir­a­tion­al and

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY pro­fes­sion­al ser­vice. They are com­mit­ted to enhan­cing pub­lic enjoy­ment, under­stand­ing and care of the out­doors, focused on main­tain­ing the qual­ity and rel­ev­ance of their work and recog­nised, val­ued and sup­por­ted by their employ­ers, oth­er related pro­fes­sions and the public.

1. In the con­text of the man­aging for vis­it­ors, Ranger Ser­vices will focus on pos­it­ive face-to-face engage­ment with vis­it­ors at key hot­spots by deliv­er­ing the fol­low­ing aims: • To ensure a warm wel­come and provide sup­port to help people enjoy the out­doors; • To increase aware­ness, under­stand­ing, care and respons­ible use of the nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age; and • To sup­port the sus­tain­able man­age­ment and use of the out­doors to meet a range of social, eco­nom­ic and envir­on­ment­al objectives.
2. CNPA will con­tin­ue to devel­op the fam­ily of ranger ser­vices across the Park through provid­ing grant-aid, pro­mot­ing train­ing and devel­op­ment oppor­tun­it­ies, advising on ranger roles, and a strong visu­al iden­tity and brand­ing. Table 4 sets out cur­rent Ranger Ser­vice cov­er­age in the Park. * indic­ates ranger ser­vice fin­an­cially sup­por­ted by CNPA in 2022. Table 4- Ranger Ser­vice Coverage

   SER­VICE	FTE
   Atholl Estate*	2
   Bal­mor­al Estate*	2.6
   Glen Tanar Char­it­able Trust*	1.6
   Rothiemurchus Estate*	2
   RSPB Com­munity Ranger Abernethy *	1
   Muir of Din­net Nation­al Nature Reserve	1.5
   Glen­liv­et Estate	1
   FLS Glenmore-& Strath­spey — one per­man­ent, 2 sea­son­al for 2023	2
   NTS Mar Lodge	2
   Angus Alive – Glen Doll*	2
   Cairngorm Moun­tain	1.5
   Cairngorms Con­nect	1
   High­life Highland	1
   Dorenell (cross boundary)	0.2
   Aber­deen­shire Council	0.5
   Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Rangers	4 full time, 9 seasonal
   • Badenoch and Strath­spey – 2 per­man­ent rangers, 6 sea­son­al rangers
   • Deeside – 2 per­man­ent rangers, 3 sea­son­al rangers

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY • Angus Glens based in Glen Esk, I sea­son­al ranger • Plans for 2 train­ee Rangers from June, one in either team

1. Lucy Ford, Ranger Man­ager in CNPA is the key oper­a­tion­al con­tact for the CNPA Rangers, and the coordin­a­tion of all ranger resources in the Park. Con­tact CNPA Ranger team at rangers@​cairngorms.​co.​uk Com­mu­nic­a­tion Planning
2. We will con­tin­ue with the suc­cess­ful #Cairngorm­s­To­geth­er cam­paign which was developed with the Cairngorms Busi­ness Part­ner­ship in 2020 to pro­mote com­mon mes­saging in sup­port of vis­it­ors, com­munit­ies and loc­al busi­nesses. Detailed com­mu­nic­a­tions will be agreed through the Man­aging for Vis­it­ors and but col­lect­ively will be:- • Pos­it­ive — shar­ing and ​‘cel­eb­rat­ing’ what people can respons­ibly do in out­doors • Con­sist­ent – we all need to say the same thing • Con­cise — get our most import­ant pos­it­ive, con­sist­ent mes­sages across in a few words.
3. Where prac­tic­able vari­able mes­sage signs will be deployed to provide ​“real time” inform­a­tion on the status of car parks in the vicin­ity of the sign. Table 5 sets out the cur­rent loc­a­tion of the VMS signs and the rel­ev­ant man­aging body. Fur­ther inform­a­tion will be added to CNPA web­site so that all parties are clear about roles and respons­ib­il­it­ies for updated in each sign. Table 5 – Vari­able Mes­sage Signs

   Loc­a­tion	Respons­ible Body
   Coylumbridge	CairnGorm Moun­tain
   Minor Rd to Glen­more (Sled Dog turn off)	Forestry and Land Scotland
   A97 A944 junc­tion head­ing west	Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil Roads
   Din­net A93 west of X roads	Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil Roads
   B976 Minor County Rd Junc­tion to Loch Muick	Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil Roads /​Balmoral Estate

Mon­it­or­ing and Evaluation

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

1. A large per­cent­age of vis­it­ors con­tin­ue to enjoy the out­doors respons­ibly. There­fore mon­it­or­ing of vis­it­or beha­viour at key hot­spots will be used to guide resources and the deploy­ment of staff.
2. In sup­port of ongo­ing mon­it­or­ing key vis­it­or pres­sure peri­ods will be agreed by the Man­aging for Vis­it­ors Group and will include: • The ​“Glas­gow Fair” hol­i­day peri­od and the fol­low­ing 2 week­ends • School hol­i­day dates • Not­able ​“events”
3. To help guide future activ­ity, 2023 mon­it­or­ing of traffic levels and pat­terns in the Glen­more cor­ridor will be under­taken via a series of traffic cam­er­as installed by the High­land Council.
4. A new mon­it­or­ing frame­work and form was developed for 2022 in con­junc­tion with NatureScot to allow con­sist­ent report­ing of the work of Ranger Ser­vices across Scot­land see Annex I. Data gathered through the revised form will feed into the nation­al mon­it­or­ing require­ments of the new nation­al Vis­it­or Man­age­ment Strategy Coordin­a­tion Group.
5. There will be a post-sea­son eval­u­ation exer­cise under­taken in Octo­ber 2023. The key find­ings will be used to devel­op the Act­ive Cairngorms Action Plan. Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity Plan updated: Feb­ru­ary 2023

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Annex I- Mon­it­or­ing frame­work for vis­it­or man­age­ment issues Introduction

1. The arrange­ments for col­lec­tion and man­age­ment of key inform­a­tion have been reviewed by CNPA Ranger Man­ager, Lucy Ford, in dis­cus­sion with part­ner Ranger Ser­vices. This short paper sets out the key inform­a­tion require­ments to enable all act­ive part­ners in vis­it­or man­age­ment to make real­ist­ic resource decisions and to sup­port the devel­op­ment of fur­ther plans. Short Term – April to October
2. To gath­er intel­li­gence and identi­fy risks that will need address­ing with short term man­age­ment inter­ven­tions at an area and Park-wide level the fol­low­ing min­im­um data must be gathered and shared weekly: a) Num­ber of tents at a giv­en site b) Num­ber of open fires and bar­be­cues at a giv­en site c) Num­ber of camper vans stay­ing over night d) Num­ber of ser­i­ous irre­spons­ible access incidents.
3. Annex 2 sets out the feed­back form for the short term mon­it­or­ing period.
4. This data will be gathered by each site-based ranger ser­vice on a weekly basis and col­lated by the CNPA for the Man­aging for Vis­it­ors Group. Addi­tion­al inform­a­tion on camp sites, fires and irre­spons­ible access out­with of site based ranger ser­vices will be gathered by CNPA sea­son­al ranger staff. Medi­um Term
5. In order to ascer­tain what worked well and what didn’t and what inter­ven­tions will need to be taken for­ward to imple­ment a deliv­er­able vis­it­or man­age­ment pro­cess across key hot spots in the Park a review will be pre­pared to include the fol­low­ing: e) Sum­mary of camp­ing trends over key peri­od f) Sum­mary of fires trend over key peri­od: g) Data on num­ber of vis­it­ors and key trends in rela­tion to peak peri­ods h) Park­ing and traffic data gathered by part­ners i) Trends in irre­spons­ible beha­viour j) Sum­mary and reflec­tions on inter­ven­tions: k) Sum­mary and reflec­tions on communications.

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Annex 2 2022 CNP Vis­it­or Man­age­ment Form Vis­it­or mon­it­or­ing form for all sites across the Cairngorms Nation­al Park. This form is to be filled in through­out the sea­son with fort­nightly reports presen­ted to the man­aging for vis­it­ors group. *Required

1. Select Area * Deeside

   Badenoch & Strathspey

   Blair Atholl

   Tomin­toul & Glenlivet

   Angus Glens

   Aviemore

   Boat of Garten

   Carr-Bridge

   Crom­dale

   Dal­whin­nie

   Dul­nain Bridge

   Glen­more

   Grant­own

   Inshriach

   Kin­gussie

   Kincraig/​Loch Insh

   Loch Pity­oul­ish

   Lag­gan

   Loch Garten

   Nethy Bridge

   New­ton­more

   Rothiemurchus

   Blair Atholl 2/2/22, 10:36 AM Tomin­toul & Glen­liv­et Aboyne Bal­later Brae­mar Cam­bus o’May Glen Tanar Glen Shee Linn of Dee/​Quoich Muir of Din­net Strath­don Glen Lee Glen Mark Glen Esk Glen Doll CAIRNGORMS LOC­AL OUT­DOOR ACCESS FOR­UM Paper 2022 CNP Vis­it­or Man­age­ment Data

2. Date or peri­od data collected *
3. Num­ber of people engaged with *
4. Num­ber of tents encountered in patrol area *
5. Num­ber of overnight­ing camper­vans encountered in patrol area *
6. Num­ber of dogs on a lead (or under very close con­trol) encountered *
7. Num­ber of dogs off the lead (or not under very close con­trol) encountered *
8. Num­ber of live fires/​BBQs extinguished *
9. Num­ber of old fire/​BBQ remains cleared *
10. Num­ber of black bin bags of lit­ter col­lec­ted (units of .25) *
11. Incid­ent report required? * Yes / No

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