by Eleisha Fahy | 11 September 2025
Our route description is the opposite way to that which the coffin bearers would have travelled. Starting at the north end, the first part of the track is over the old line of the public road. It then heads to the summit over a track and then a grassy path. The...
by Eleisha Fahy | 11 September 2025
Our route description is east to west, i.e. in the opposite direction of travel of the coffins. One can start by walking an additional 10km/6miles from Balquhidder along the narrow public road on the north side of Loch Voil and Loch Doine to the carpark at its end,...
by Eleisha Fahy | 11 September 2025
This long and historic route is now followed by landrover tracks or tarmac all the way, so may be considered cyclable by some. However, it traverses some remote and wild country and there are numerous fords, which may need wading in wet conditions. From Killin, go...
by Eleisha Fahy | 11 September 2025
From the west end of the Glen Quoich bridge, go north by a private road alongside the loch to Alltbeithe. There turn northwest and follow another track for 2km, then continue along the path up Wester Glen Quoich. After being joined by the path from Kinloch Hourn that...
by David Oxley | 11 September 2025
This route is not easy to follow as there is no track on the open hillside. According to Old Tracks: Cross-Country Routes and Coffin Roads in the North-West Highlands by A E Robertson (1941): “there is an interesting old cut across from Glen Garry to Glen...
