Trossachs Trail

As you drive or cycle around the Trossachs you’ll notice brown Trossachs Trail road signs at frequent intervals. The 40-mile Trossachs Trail, was inspired by the original Trossachs Tour, popular in the 1800s when visitors arrived by horse drawn coach and later rail. Today’s trail follows a road loop but, through detours and off-road tracks, covers a much wider area to explore and enjoy.

The Trossachs Trail has benefited from a complete refresh for Spring 2021. A new website and series of information panels around the route is a project led by Friends of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs an independent conservation and heritage charity, along with the Steamship Sir Walter Scott Trust, supported by local communities of Callander and Aberfoyle.

You can see one of the panels above, which we are delighted is in the shared covered area, allowing all guests to plan an adventure in the Trossachs.

Dukes Pass on the Trail

The ‘Trossachs Trail’ was first developed over thirty years ago and was the first officially recognised geographic tourist trail in Scotland. It evolved to become a leading Tourism and Environment initiative, with considerable investment in a range of visitor infrastructure around the trail.

The Trossachs has come to describe a large area of woodland, lochs and mountains between Callander and Aberfoyle, though the name comes from the small wooded glen that leads from Loch Achray to Loch Katrine. The circular road tour connects Blair Drummond, Doune, Callander, Brig o’ Turk, Aberfoyle, Port of Menteith and Thornhill and includes a wide range of things to see and do.

Doune Castle