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Aviemore is a town and tourist resort, situated within the Cairngorms National Park in the Highlands of Scotland. It is in the Badenoch and Strathspey committee area, within the Highland council area. Prior to 1890 it was in an exclave of the county of Moray and from 1890 to 1975 it was in the county of Inverness-shire, until the latter date being within the Civil Parish of Duthil and Rothiemurchus. The town is popular for skiing and other winter sports, and for hill-walking in the Cairngorm Mountains. The Aviemore stone circle is located within a residential neighborhood of the town.

Aviemore lies on the B9152. Aviemore railway station is on the Highland Main Line and Aviemore is also the southern terminus of the Strathspey Railway, a heritage railway.

It was one of the first skiing resorts to be established in Scotland with the opening of the Chairlift in 1960 and is also notable for being near the freely grazing reindeer herd at Glen More, the only one in the United Kingdom.

The resort has variable quality of snow and weather conditions.

Aviemore
Within the Centre there was an international competition standard ice skating and curling rink, home to the Aviemore Blackhawks and Aviemore Blues hockey teams (whom recently reformed in a charity match played in Inverness), a 25m Swimming pool, "Santa Claus Land" (a Santa Claus theme park featuring a resident Father Christmas 365 days a year), a cinema/theatre, bars, restaurants, nightclubs and discothèques, shops including "Cairdsport" (run by Sandy Caird, who brought the first ski shop and ski school to Aviemore), Allander Square with its concrete fountains, a dry ski slope, crazy golf, and a Go-kart track. However the lack of guaranteed snow meant that the anticipated boom for the centre was short-lived. This, coupled with a lack of investment over the decades and the quickly-dated 1960s architecture, began losing the Aviemore Centre custom.