Walks you can reach from Dyce by train
Aberdeenshire · Scotland
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Inverurie to Kintore (Aberdeenshire)
15 minutes direct from Dyce.
Recommended: A really beautiful walk. Leaves Inverurie on the quiet Old Port Road, then walkers' tracks through woodland and along the river edges of the Urie and Don (narrow, care needed near the water). Uses a farmer's tractor bridge and field-edge skirting and with well-defined farm tracks. Hillwalking boots needed for some sections. The route passes Kinkell churchyard and through farm yards (Ardmurdo, Balbithan). An optional stile route skirts fields at Breedie's Haugh near Kintore golf club instead of the road.
Time: 2h30–4h30
Warnings: Follows a busy road for a sixth of the walk. Narrow riverside paths require care; if the Urie or Don river levels are high, stay inside the fields. A narrow bridge over the Urie and the next bend need care with frequent cars in both directions.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Portlethen to Stonehaven (Kincardineshire)
30 minutes direct from Dyce.
Recommended
Walk details: Railwalks.
Portlethen to Aberdeen (Kincardineshire)
30 minutes direct from Dyce.
Great walk along the clifftops; stunning clifftop paths. A walk of two halves: the first 5km is uneventful but quiet road walking through farmland and former fishing villages, then around 10km of stunning clifftop coastal path (the Aberdeen Coastal Path), weaving in and out of inlets and with an industrial stretch near Aberdeen harbour and the lovely Cove Community Woodland. Follows the Aberdeen Coastal Path along the cliffs; an optional 2-3km diversion via Greyhope Road offers a chance to see dolphins at the harbour mouth, plus a café and toilet at Torry Battery. Lots of nesting seabirds, and Cove Community Woodland has wildflower meadows and benches.
Hilly: a third on high ground, rising above the surrounding land.
Coastal: three fifths along the coast.
Time: 4h30–9h
Lunch: A Premier store at Cove (around 7km) and a café at Torry Battery slightly off-route.
Warnings: Sections run along clifftop paths where care is required, though never dangerously close to the edge. The road walking into Portlethen has no path in places, so care is needed; hill-walking boots recommended for some sections.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Insch to Inverurie (Aberdeenshire)
30 minutes direct from Dyce.
Huntly to Insch (Aberdeenshire)
45 minutes direct from Dyce.