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Walking on Arran

The best low level walks and challenging mountain routes, including the Arran Coastal Way

ISBN

9781786311351

Availability

Published

6 Jun 2023

Edition

Fourth

Pages

288

Size

17.20 x 11.60 x 1.60cm

Weight

330g

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The 45 walking routes in this Isle of Arran guidebook range from easy 5km (3 miles) nature trails to long arduous mountain routes with scrambles (up to 22km), providing thorough coverage of Arran, including an ascent of Goatfell, and nearby Holy Isle. Also includes the 110km Arran Coastal Way, one of Scotland's Great Trails.

Seasons

Arran is good for walking year-round: be aware that the island's population triples in the peak summer period, and deer stalking takes place mid-August to mid-October.

Centres

Brodick; Lamlash; Lochranza

Difficulty

This guide include a few easy, waymarked forest trails and low-level walks and a dozen or so moderate glen and hill walks. The rest of the routes require more effort, involving higher mountains, sometimes with hands-on scrambling. There are roads and forest tracks, hill tracks and paths, but many routes also cross pathless slopes and traverse rocky mountain ridges.

Must See

Goatfell, Holy Isle, Beinn Nuis, Beinn Tarsuinn, the Sannox Horseshoe, Glen Rosa and the Cock of Arran

ISBN

9781786311351

Availability

Published

6 Jun 2023

Edition

Fourth

Pages

288

Size

17.20 x 11.60 x 1.60cm

Weight

330g

Overview

A guidebook to 44 walks on Scotland’s Isle of Arran (plus one on neighbouring Holy Isle) exploring the island’s stunning mountains and coast. Although there are a handful of easier routes, many of the walks involve pathless terrain and a few of the mountain traverses call for some exposed scrambling.

With many walks accessible by public transport, the routes range from 5 to 23km (3–14 miles) and can be enjoyed in 2–7 hours. The final ten routes can be combined to form the 7-day Arran Coastal Way, with optional inland variants.

1:50,000 OS maps included for each walk
Includes the Arran Coastal Way
Sized to easily fit in a jacket pocket
GPX files available to download
The region’s geology, history, plants, wildlife and local points of interest

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Overview map

Map key

Route summary table

Introduction

Getting to Arran

Getting around Arran

Finding your bearings

A geology classroom

A turbulent history

Land ownership and access

Island animals

Island plants

Accommodation

Food and drink

Maps

The walks

Tourist information

Emergency services

The walks

Walk 1 Goatfell and Brodick

Walk 2 Brodick Castle Forest Trails

Walk 3 Brodick and the Clauchland Hills

Walk 4 Sithein and Glen Cloy

Walk 5 Sithein and The Ross

Walk 6 Holy Isle from Lamlash

Walk 7 Tighvein and Monamore Glen

Walk 8 Glenashdale and Urie Loch

Walk 9 Glenashdale Falls and Giants’ Graves

Walk 10 Eas Mòr and Loch Garbad

Walk 11 Kilmory Forest Circuit

Walk 12 The Ross and Cnoc a’ Chapuill

Walk 13 Shiskine and Clauchan Glen

Walk 14 Bridgend and Ard Bheinn

Walk 15 The String and Beinn Bhreac

Walk 16 Machrie Moor Stone Circle

Walk 17 Dougarie and Beinn Nuis

Walk 18 Dougarie and Sail Chalmadale

Walk 19 Imachar and Mullach Buidhe

Walk 20 Pirnmill and Mullach Buidhe

Walk 21 Coire-Fhionn Lochan

Walk 22 Catacol and Meall nan Damh

Walk 23 Catacol and Beinn Bhreac

Walk 24 Catacol and Beinn Tarsuinn

Walk 25 Lochranza and Meall Mòr

Walk 26 Gleann Easan Biorach

Walk 27 Lochranza and Cock of Arran

Walk 28 Lochranza and Sail an Im

Walk 29 North Glen Sannox Horseshoe

Walk 30 Glen Sannox Horseshoe

Walk 31 Glen Sannox to Glen Rosa

Walk 32 Sannox, Goatfell and Corrie

Walk 33 Glen Rosa and Beinn Tarsuinn

Walk 34 Western Glen Rosa

Walk 35 Eastern Glen Rosa

Arran Coastal Way

Walk 36 Brodick to Sannox (forest)

Walk 37 Brodick to Sannox (mountain)

Walk 38 Sannox to Lochranza

Walk 39 Lochranza to Imachar

Walk 40 Imachar to Blackwaterfoot

Walk 41 Blackwaterfoot to Lagg (coastal)

Walk 42 Blackwaterfoot to Lagg (inland)

Walk 43 Lagg to Whiting Bay (coastal)

Walk 44 Lagg to Whiting Bay (inland)

Walk 45 Whiting Bay to Brodick

Appendix A Useful contacts

Appendix B Gaelic/English glossary

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By Paddy Dillon

Paddy Dillon is a prolific walker and guidebook writer, with over 100 guidebooks to his name and contributions to 40 other titles. He has written for several outdoor magazines and other publications and has appeared on radio and television.Paddy uses a tablet computer to write as he walks. His descriptions are therefore precise, having been written at the very point at which the reader uses them.Paddy is an indefatigable long-distance walker who has walked all of Britain's National Trails and several European trails. He has also walked in Nepal, Tibet, Korea and the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the US.

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