Achray Forest & Loch Drunkie walking and hiking route
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Walk Instructions
A varied walk on good tracks with gentle
gradients and attractive views.
Start Point - Brig o’Turk
From Tigh Mor, turn left and follow the A821 towards
Callander. In approx 2 miles, after you have crossed the
bridge, take the 1st turn on your left in about 300 yards
and park by the village hall.
Tigh Mor Walk Pack v3.0, January 2016. Contains Ordnance Survey data. Crown
copyright and database right 2016.
From the Village hall, return to the main road and tum right
for 200m (2-3 mins) to the Byre Inn. Turn left, past the inn on
your right and a house on your left. In about 100m (1-2 mins),
cross the Black Water on an arched bridge. Continue along the
track and in approx 500m (7-8 mins) pass Achray Farm and go
through a gate to a T junction at Point 1 (NN529063). You
are now on the Forest Drive.
Tum left and follow the Forest Drive. In approx 300m
(4-5 mins) cross a cattle grid into plantation. In a further
250m (4 mins), ignore a track on your right and in another
500m (7-8 mins ), just after crossing a burn, ignore another
track on your right at a distinct left hand bend. In a further
150m (2-3 mins) at Point 2 (NN533056) there is a rough
track with a broken wooden barrier leading uphill to your right.
Follow this rough track uphill to a T junction in approx 100m
(1-2 mins). Turn left here (a faded blue cycle route post may
still be there) and continue to ascend gently-in places the
track degenerates into an eroded path. At a fork in approx
400m ( 6 mins) keep to the right and in a further 400m (6
mins) meet the Forest Drive again at a wooden barrier Point 3
(NN536049). Turn right here and & follow the Forest Drive to
the car park & toilets at Pine Ridge in approx 400m (6 mins).
NN535046.
Leave the car park with the toilet block on your right, then
keep right at the fork, to follow the white/green wayposts
passed some ‘sound sculptures’ above Loch Drunkie. After
the 2nd sculpture the white marks finish and you follow
green ones only. In approx 1 km. (15 mins) the green
wayposts go to the left - leave them and keep on the path
to the right to rejoin Forest Drive in a further 300m at the
‘Fisherman’s carpark’
- Point 4 (NN544049). Turn right along the forest drive for
just over 1 00m (2 mins) and take unwaymarked path on the
right Gust after a 10 :MPH sign).
This path is a little rough in places but improves as you
approach the western end of the dam at the northern end
of the loch in about 500m (7-8 mins). Continue on down this
path for a further 400m (6 mins) to a T junction with the path
which follows the southern shore of Loch Venachar. Tum left
and in about 1 Km (15 mins) pass a barrier to rejoin the Forest
Drive at a Cycle Route 7 signpost- Point 5 (NN537055).
Carry straight on (signed ‘Loch Katrine 4’) & follow the Forest
Drive, passing Point 2 again in approx 400m (6 mins). From
here retrace your steps to Point 1 where you turn right to pass
Achray Farm and thence back to Brig o’ Turk.
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Disclaimer: This route was correct at time of writing. However, alterations can happen if development or boundary changes occur, and there is no guarantee of permanent access. These walks have been published for use by site visitors on the understanding that neither HPB Management Limited nor any other person connected with Holiday Property Bond is responsible for the safety or wellbeing of those following the routes as described. It is walkers' own responsibility to be adequately prepared and equipped for the level of walk and the weather conditions and to assess the safety and accessibility of the walk.
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