Best walks from Bearsden
Dunbartonshire · Scotland
MapJump on a train, get off at Bearsden Station and lose yourself in a beautiful hike for the day.
Bearsden Station to Milngavie Station
a great route with lots to see along the way. A short, pleasant urban route linking three large green spaces with residential streets, on a mix of paved roads and wooded footpaths and including shady paths around Kilmardinny Loch and along the Craigdhu Burn. A few steps and a steep section make it foot-only. Makes good use of three green spaces: Kilmardinny Loch park, the Craigdhu Burn corridor and Lennox Park. No refreshments on route but plenty at either end.
Easy: 4km, moderate ascents.
Several flights of steps (around Kilmardinny Loch and at Lennox Park) and a steep section. A couple of busy roads to negotiate, with no good nearby crossing at the Lennox Park junction. The green sections could feel daunting to a solo walker after dusk.
Lunch: No refreshments on route, but plenty at either end.
Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route
Bearsden Station to Kelvindale Station
delightful. Residential pavements give way to peaceful, sculpture-dotted woodland and leafy parkland and with a hill or two near Bearsden. So much green cover it is easy to forget you are in suburbia. Kelvindale connects well to other walks, especially via the canal; nearby Anniesland has fuller facilities and more frequent trains.
Easy: 4km, moderate ascents.
The route crosses the busy A739 dual carriageway where there is no crossing at the mapped point (a pedestrian crossing lies about 50-100m south). The short final section along Dalsholm Road has no pavement and is busy. Some steps and steep hills.
Lunch: No refreshments along the way; plenty at Bearsden.
Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route
Bearsden Station to Gilshochill Station
Easy: 4km, moderate ascents.
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Kilpatrick Station to Bearsden Station
Tough: steep ascents. 9km.
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Clydebank Station to Bearsden Station
A demanding suburban route along busy roads and through neglected green patches and wooded valleys, with several muddy sections and one steep and overgrown earth path climbing out of Garscadden Wood.
Tough: steep ascents. 6km.
A steep, poorly-used and overgrown earth path climbs out of Garscadden Wood and is hard going. Several muddy sections and some lonely stretches. At Drumry the route crosses a dual carriageway at a roundabout with no crossing. Best suited to fit, adventurous walkers only.