Cycling Queen Elizabeth forest park - Loch Drunkie Loop.

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Loch Drunkie - 3 lochs.

About 9.5 miles round trip from Dukes pass

Start: Forest Car park A821 1.2 miles south of Loch Achray Hotel
Distance: 9.5 miles
Surface: Forest track, mostly pleasant but one or two short rough stretches. A couple of pushes!

BEWARE - part of this route is shared by cars using a forest trail!!!

Park in the parking area about 100 yds off the A821. Take the track leading downhill roughly parallel to the A821 and follow along the side of Loch Achray taking note of the gothic looking 'Tigh Mor Trossach' timeshare on the north side of the loch. Keep to the lochside until forced to leave the loch as the track nears a farmhouse.

Just before the farmhouse, turn right and follow this through mature forest until at a barrier on a level stretch, a fork leads off uphill to the right. Take this right fork and follow to a parking area (with toilets) where a map will show the way to loch Drunkie.

On reaching Loch Drunkie, follow the track  south then west to go round the end of Loch Drunkie.

Eventually, leave Loch Drunkie heading west again to pass close to Lochan Reoidhte before reaching a viewpoint with seats. Take a breather here and look at the view over the Trossachs and beyond to the north.

Now continue a couple of hundred yards to the A821 with its traffic, and follow downhill to the carpark where you started.

Cycle hire from Wheels Cycling Centre just outside town or Mounter's Bikes in Callander