Know the code Enjoying Scotland’s outdoors responsibly

Everyone has the right to be on most Pentland Hills land and inland water providing they do • take responsibility for your own actions so responsibly. Your access rights and • respect the interests of other people Visitor Guide and map responsibilities are explained fully in the • care for the environment. Scottish Outdoor Access code. www.pentlandhills.org Whether you’re in the outdoors or For practical advice and information relating managing the outdoors, there are three to the Scottish Outdoor Access Code visit: key things: www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot

Reducing congestion in the Pentland Hills

Avoid car Contact us congestion Pentland Hills Regional Park HQ at Bonaly, Hermitage of Braid Flotterstone, 69a Braid Road Harlaw and Edinburgh Threipmuir: EH10 6JF • Walk or cycle Telephone: 0131 529 2401 Duty officer: 07798 505301 • Use public email: [email protected] transport: www.pentlandhills.org Lothian Buses: numbers 4, 10, 11, 16, 27 and 44. Visit www.lothianbuses. Images supplied by: Dwayne Telford, Dougie Cockburn, Susan Sutherland, com or phone Traveline Scotland Mike Clarke, Susan Kirby, Jenny Brown, Jerry Balloch. Designed by the City of Edinburgh Council. 0871 200 2233. Stagecoach West Corporate Governance 18.090/CE/SG/May2019. Scotland: numbers 101, 102. Visit Printed by the City of Edinburgh Council Print Services. www.stagecoachbus.com or phone Traveline Scotland 0871 200 2233 Supported by • Weekends are very busy – park instead at Boghall, Carlops, Castlelaw, Dreghorn, Hillend, Nine Mile BurnSwanston.

You can get this document on tape, in Braille, large print and various computer formats if you ask us. Please contact the Interpretation and Translation Service (ITS) on 0131 242 8181 and quote reference number 19-4855. The ITS can also give information on community language translations. The Pentland Hills Regional Park is Donation scheme a living, working landscape which for the Pentland Hills Regional Park consists of around 10,000 hectares of countryside and 100km of The donation scheme is an easy way for RingGo App or call 0131 516 4000 to pay people to put something back into the by debit/credit card. To donate use the paths. It’s a protected landscape Hills. It allows you to make a donation following codes: for environmental improvements. All containing a rich mosaic of £2 - 12558 £5 - 12562 £10 - 12563 funds raised go towards projects that farmed land, heather moorland, enhance and protect the Pentland Hills For more information and to donate Regional Park. reservoirs, woodland and hills. please visit the Regional Park's website Donate with your mobile! Download the at www.pentlandhills.org

Explore the Pentlands Respect the landscape Care for the environment – the paths in Suggested circular routes when you visit the Hills the Regional Park are vulnerable to erosion. Please be mindful of path conditions in Glencorse View (2.7 miles/4.5 km) Moderate poor weather. Take litter home with you. Respect the interests of other people From Flotterstone Information Point, follow the Heron waymarkers along the Bag and bin your dog’s poo. – all responsible visitors are welcome in burn to Glencorse Reservoir. Return via the Castlelaw path, enjoying great the Regional Park. Acting with courtesy, Take responsibility for your own views of the glen. consideration and awareness is very actions – you may come across the Harlaw Woodland (2 miles/3.5 km) Easy important. Make sure that you respect the following on the 100km waymarked path From Harlaw House Visitor Centre, follow the Squirrel waymarkers around privacy, safety and livelihoods of those network: gates, stiles, bridges, dykes and Harlaw Reservoir. Enjoy spectacular views of Black Hill, with Turnhouse Hill living or working in the hills, and the needs drainage structures. Please respect these and West Kip in the distance. of other people enjoying the outdoors. features. Remember that the hills can’t be made risk-free and act with care at all times Capital View (2.5 miles/4 km) Moderate/Strenuous for your own safety and that of others. From Hillend Country Park lower car park, follow the Castle waymarkers, taking in spectacular views of Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth. Torduff Water (1.5 miles/2.5 km) Moderate From the car park at Bonaly Country Park, follow the Tap waymarkers through the woodland to Torduff Reservoir. Enjoy views of the moorland and across Edinburgh. The full 100km of waymarked paths are shown on the map over leaf.

A living, working landscape April-July May-September August-January August/September November/December Birds Nesting. Please High fire risk. Please Game Shooting. Harvest. Large Sheep Tupping. January/February Mid March/April keep your dog on a don’t light fires in Please follow the machinery require Disturbance or gates Pregnant sheep. Please Sheep Lambing. short lead or close to woodlands and leave advice on posted access to fields. Please left open can ruin the keep your dog on a Disturbance may heel. no trace. signs. park your vehicle breeding season. short lead or close at seperate lambs from sensibly and do not Please keep your dog heel. their mothers. Please block access to gates. on a short lead or close keep your dog on a short at heel. lead or close at heel. Colinton EDINBURGH Fairmilehead

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