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Today Dunachton Estate is a fully working mixed estate encompassing 10,000 acres stretching from the river Spey away to the North West into the Mondaliath Mountains.
From the mid-1880s both estates were owned by Alfred Mackintosh of Mackintosh who let them as one large shooting estate. Kincraig House was later used as the summer residence of the Duchess of Bedford.
Kincraig House was originally the Kincraig Estate main house, but when the Estates were purchased in 1937 by Lorna Forbes-Leith (great-great-grandmother of the current owner), she moved into Dunachton Lodge and continued to let Kincraig House out annually.
The Highland Wildlife Park was set up on the Southern edge of the estate in the early 1970s by Sir Andrew Forbes-Leith and is now run by The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.
Polar bears, Amur tigers, wolves, bison, elk and snow leopards are just some of the current residents of the park. Working sheepdogs also operate from the estate at Leault Farm, a few hundred yards from Kincraig House.
There are 1200 black-faced ewes and a herd of cattle on Dunachton. The sporting department offers walked-up and driven grouse shooting, Red and Sika deer stalking, driven pheasant shooting, rough shooting and fishing for salmon and trout on the Spey and in Loch Insh.
Accommodation for shooting parties is provided at Dunachton Lodge and there are 13 further residential properties on the Estate. There is an active Forestry Department managing the estate's 1,000 acres of trees.
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