Day Trip to Galloway
on Sunday 2 February 2025
Main map required is LandRanger 76 Girvan & surrounding area,
but you can download and print a useful map section below ....
This is now a past outing .. like to read about it?
The February day trip will be to the Galloway Forest Park. Giving some of the higher summits in the area a miss, our target for the day is Craigenreoch (Marilyn, 565m).
We’ll meet at 10am at the Bell Memorial car park on the minor road between Straiton and Glentrool.
Satnavs: DG8 6TB
Maps: GR NX 353907
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The w3w map doesn't give any useful information, but zooming the Google Map may be helpful ....
From the meeting point we’ll take one or two cars to a parking spot at NX348429, between a cattle grid and Nick of the Balloch, about 2km northwards on the road to North and South Balloch. If required, we can ferry walkers from the Bell Memorial car park to this point. If parking here is not feasible, we’ll use the area at NX341937.
A short way uphill from the parking spot, at Brandy Well, a rough track runs steeply uphill and soon peters out. From this point there is an ATV track that can be followed to Rowantree Hill and on to the trig point on Craigenreoch. We’ll continue over Polmaddie Hill to Pinbreck Hill. From here we can either turn north-east to Changue and Haggis Hill or continue over Cairn Hill and Fell Hill to another trig point on Mid Hill. We can adjust our return route to suit the conditions on the day, either retracing our steps or if the streams can be crossed, descending north-east from Haggis Hill and following the edge of the forest back to the road and the cars.
If you would like to join the club on this outing, please reply by Friday 31 January. Please let me know what your travel plans are so that I can coordinate car sharing.
Cornel Brozio, Galloway Organiser