Great Trossachs Path
The Great Trossachs Path is a 48 km waymarked route from Callander to Inversnaid on Loch Lomond — through the heart of the Trossachs National Park past Loch Katrine, the inspiration for Sir Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake".
About Great Trossachs Path
The Trossachs were Scotland's first tourism destination — Sir Walter Scott's 1810 poem "The Lady of the Lake" made Loch Katrine famous and Victorian tourists flooded in. The Great Trossachs Path runs through this landscape from Callander to the eastern shore of Loch Lomond, passing Loch Katrine and its surrounding birch and oak woodland.
For trail runners it is a one to two day challenge on well-maintained paths through beautiful Highland scenery. The Loch Katrine waterworks road provides a good surface for much of the middle section.
The route
Callander to Loch Katrine (~20 km): Through the wooded Pass of Leny and along the Loch Katrine western shore.
Loch Katrine to Inversnaid (~28 km): East around Loch Katrine (or by boat) and over the hills to the western shore of Loch Lomond at Inversnaid.
Getting there & logistics
Start: Callander. Bus from Stirling (train to Edinburgh and Glasgow).
Finish: Inversnaid. Ferry across Loch Lomond to Inveruglas; bus to Arrochar; train to Glasgow.
Best time: April to October.
Safety
The hill section between Loch Katrine and Inversnaid is the most remote part. Good paths throughout. In an emergency: call 999 or 112. Good mobile signal on most of the route.
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