The Park stretches from Grantown on Spey to the heads of the Angus Glens, from
Ballater to Dalwhinnie and Drumochter including much of the Laggan area in the
South West and a large area of the Glen Livet estate and the Strathdon/Glen Buchat
area. The forests of the Cairngorms contain remnants of the original Caledonian
pine forest and includes a rare kind of pinewood found only in Scotland and Norway.
Heather moorland covers much of the national park.
