Scout Pool Scout Pool www.lochlomond-trossachs.org The Glacier Trail (including Roman Camp Walk) Slighe an Eigh-shruth (a’ gabhail a-steach Slighe a’ Champa Ròmanaich) Red Well • Bracklinn Falls A Y H T Killin A827 L O C National Park Boundary Tyndrum The Glacier Trail - Callander A8 Start/end 2 A85 St Fillans Crianlarich A85 R N Lochearnhead L O C H E A Explore some of this area’s geology on the low- A82 I L V O L O C H A84 level glacier trail. It starts near the Roman Camp Inverlochlarig Strathyre Ardlui Hotel at the east end of Main Street and follows a L O C H S L O Y A83 L O T R Bracklinn C K A I N short stretch of the River Teith. H L O L E T E Red Well • Inveruglas C H A R K E B Inversnaid YN 83 9 B8 Callander F 2 A821 Falls 9 R A8 LO C H A H Arrochar V E N AC H 3 A8 C RomanTarbe Fortt 4 O L L Strachur O Surfaced paths, 3 miles / C O C H L A R H D L LAKE OF B A886 8 O MENTEITH 1 L Aberfoyle 5 C A873 H O Rowardennan A814 G cycleway and uneven 4.7 km Samson’s M O O I Gartmore L Stone N D L G Dunmore O N 1 C O Luss paths, can be muddy Allow A8 H L Fort 811 E A H Garelochhead Balmaha C Callander C K B A 837 O 817 L G 11/2 hours A R Drymen E 875 Ardentinny A L O 811 Gartocharn A A815 C A809 H 832 B Kilmun Balloch A8 1 A885 A81 Dunoon 4 A82 Dumbarton A8 Start/end Roman Fort Samson’s Stone Dunmore Fort 1 2 0 500m 1 Kilometre 0 1/2 1 Mile This map is for illustrative purposes only, always equip yourself with the appropriate map. 3 © Crown copyright and database rights 2017. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100031883 This trail features two glacial deposits (2) To return to town turn left. Follow the that were left about 12,000 years ago cycleway along Livingstone Avenue and at the end of the last ice age. Turn left Murdiston Avenue at the end of which is the into Main Street (A84 to Stirling) and site of Callander’s first station and later goods go about 600 metres. Turn right at the yard with the old station master’s house still sign to ‘Roman Camp Walk’. on the rocks above. Continue under the bridge (1) The narrow path takes you up a bank on the cycleway and then on the path between overlooking the walled garden of the the car park and the bowling green. Turn left to Roman Camp Hotel. This bank is the cross Glenartney Road and back into Ancaster Roman Camp Esker, which is a narrow Square. winding ridge deposited by a subglacial (3) To visit the Callander Moraine turn right stream when the last glacier retreated. at the cycleway for 450 metres. In Drumdhu Follow the top of the esker round to Wood find a path to the right that angles off up the River Teith and turn left through an a slope to a ridge. This ridge (about 150m long) industrial estate and up Geisher Road. is part of the moraine with a steep ice contact The route crosses Stirling Road and slope. This is the point where the glacier snout then up the lane beside the Mellis Burn would have reached before it started to retreat. to the cycleway, which was once the Return to the Mellis Burn and follow the route Dunblane to Callander railway line. back to town. Walkers should wear walking boots and suitable clothing and follow the Scottish Outdoor Access Code www.outdooraccess-scotland.com.
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