In view from the 222 metres (728 ft)-high south-facing summit is the Friarton Bridge, a stretch of the Tay Coast railway line and the Sidlaw Hills.

[The view] commands the lower course of the Tay and its estuary, widening out between the level expanse of the Carse of Gowrie, thickly sprinkled with farms and mansions, and the opposing shores of Fife, onward to where it is closed by the smoke of Dundee and the line of the Tay Bridge.— Francis Watt, 1889[2]Near the summit, which is divided into two points, is the Windy Gowle, a hollow which (historically, at least) offered "an echo of nine distinct reverberations".

On his return, to achieve a similar effect, he built a modest castle on the highest point of Kinnoull Hill, with its tower overlooking the River Tay.

[7][failed verification] Kinnoull Hill Woodland Park is managed in a partnership between Forestry and Land Scotland[8] and Perth & Kinross Council.

[10] Branklyn Garden was built by Dorothy Renton and her husband in the western foothills of Kinnoull Hill.

[15] In early January 2002, Daniela Smith, a 31-year-old mother-of-two, pushed her infant children off the hill's summit while they were strapped in their pushchair, before throwing herself off.