Walks you can reach from Irvine by train
Ayrshire · Scotland
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Kilwinning to Stewarton (Ayrshire)
4 minutes direct from Irvine.
Time: 5h (3h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Follows a busy road for three fifths of the walk.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Troon to Kilmarnock (Ayrshire)
7 minutes direct from Irvine.
Country lanes, tracks and field paths through farmland and woodland and with a particularly fine wooded stretch through Dundonald. One straight field section can be very muddy and is best bypassed. The Colennan-to-Dundonald section is part of the official Smugglers Trail. Dundonald Woods is an SSSI.
Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: The section between Newfield Mains and Rowanhill runs through the middle of a livestock field and is very muddy even in dry weather and impassable when wet; continue via East Lodge and Cherryknowe instead.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Prestwick to Kilmarnock (Ayrshire)
15 minutes direct from Irvine.
Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Follows a busy road for three fifths of the walk.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Johnstone to Bishopton (Renfrewshire)
15 minutes direct from Irvine.
Time: 4h30 (3h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Follows a busy road for half of the walk.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Maybole to Ayr (Ayrshire)
15 minutes direct from Irvine.
Coastal: three fifths along the coast.
Time: 8h30 (6h30 walking, 1h30 lunch, 30m break)
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Dalry to Kilwinning (Ayrshire)
4 minutes direct from Irvine.
Mainly winding country roads bordered by woodland and farmland, with no pavement for almost the whole stretch, then a former railway line crossing a tall viaduct and a packed-soil riverbank path near Kilwinning. Wild-flower verges and several restored old buildings. The disused railway section is part of the Garnock Valley Cycle Route.
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: There is no pavement for virtually the whole road section, so take care on the winding country lanes. The riverbank path near Kilwinning is poor underfoot; an easy estate-road alternative exists. Cross Lauchlan Way carefully as there is no pedestrian crossing.
Walk details: Slow Ways.