The campaign was launched at the Falls of Bruar, near Blair Atholl, on Wednesday, 12 March 2003.

Launching the campaign, Bill Wright, Chair of PARC, said:
“The breadth of support for the inclusion of the Southern Cairngorms within the National Park demonstrates the strength of our arguments.
I am aware of no other such alliance where local people, businesses, councillors, environmental organisations and recreational bodies have stood together so readily and with such commitment.
Perthshire has a long standing history of working with others to protect and manage the Cairngorms. All involved in PARC are determined to ensure that Perthshire continues to be part of that effort.”

Garry Stagg, President of the Atholl Mercantile Association (the local business association), added:
"As you drive north along the A9 you pass Killiecrankie and move from Big Tree Country into the moorland wilderness that characterises both Atholl and Badenoch. This is where the Cairngorms start, not on the far side of Drumochter.
As businesses, the last thing that we want to do is try to explain to visitors why some Cairngorms mountains are in the National Park and others aren't."

Perthshire Alliance for the Real Cairngorms Mission Statement Aim To ensure that the Cairngorms National Park boundary incorporates those parts of Perthshire recommended for inclusion by Scottish Natural Heritage. Rationale The current Park boundary: does not reflect the coherent natural heritage identity of the Cairngorms as a whole, as identified by SNH will not protect the distinct wild and natural character of the southern Cairngorms dissects important European nature conservation sites at Drumochter and Caenlochan, making integrated conservation difficult severs historic routes through some of the wildest and most remote areas of the UK, making integrated recreational management difficult Will not allow for the co-ordinated management, including associated transport links, of the Glenshee ski slopes misses the opportunity to use the natural gateways and existing infrastructure in Atholl and upper Glenshee to provide the best welcome to visitors to the Park from the south will not spread the economic and social benefits of the National Park to the whole of the Cairngorms

PARC holding alternative opening ceremony for the National Park.

PARC member organisations are -

Perth & Kinross Council Perthshire Tourist Board Highland Perthshire Communities Partnership Perthshire Chamber of Commerce Atholl Mercantile Association Atholl Estate Cairngorms Campaign John Muir Trust Mountaineering Council of Scotland National Trust for Scotland North East Mountain Trust

Plantlife Scotland Ramblers' Association Scotland RSPB Scotland rural Scotland Scottish Council for National Parks Scottish Countryside Activities Council Scottish Native Woods Scottish Wild Land Group Woodland Trust Scotland WWF Scotland

The Cairngorms National Park Designation (etc|) Order
The Boundary map
Park Board Sidelines Walkers