Glen Tanar pinewoods and the Knockie viewpoint

The walk starts from the Braeloine car park on the Glen Tanar estate, which charges, and crosses the steep-arched old Bridge of Tanar to the estate's information centre. It follows the green waymarkers of the longest estate trail, past the little Chapel of St Lesmo, built in 1870, and along the old Firmounth road to the Knockie viewpoint. It then heads up the glen on estate tracks, crosses the Water of Allachy and the Water of Tanar by old stone bridges, and comes back down the other side, past a lochan with a boathouse, over the Knockie bridge and along the river path to Braeloine.

It is 8.6 km (5.3 miles) with 89 m (290 ft) of ascent; allow about 2½ hours. The grade is Easy.

The Knockie has a view indicator looking over the pinewoods of the upper glen. On the way up the glen look for a spring in carved stonework dated 1874; on the way back, a fenced mill-stone where a water-mill stood and an odd conical building that once housed a turbine.

The whole walk is on estate tracks and paths. The chapel is usually locked.

Route drawn by Global Adventurer along OpenStreetMap paths (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), with figures worked out from it. Check the forecast and the ground on the day: paths change.