Best walks from Shettleston
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Shettleston Station to Stepps Station
A simple, direct and mostly enjoyable route through built-up areas and with several parks and green spaces worked in. Molendinar Woods, Cardowan Moss and Frankfield Loch offer an alternative away from the busy Cumbernauld Road.
Easy: 6km, gentle ascents.
Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route
Glasgow Central Station to Shettleston Station
A very direct, varied urban walk full of contrasts, mixing main roads, residential streets, high streets, footpaths, parks and greenspaces through old and new and upmarket and downmarket neighbourhoods. Some steps at the Shettleston end. Passes the Hovis factory and over the St Enoch subway station; intersects many bus routes.
Easy: 7km, moderate ascents.
The wooded entrance to Greenfield Recreation Ground may feel daunting for solo walkers at quiet times. Some steps, including at Shettleston station.
Lunch: Many shops, cafés, takeaways and restaurants, especially around Glasgow Central and Argyle Street; a wide choice of eating around the halfway point near Duke Street, then options thin out until Shettleston.
Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route
Shettleston Station to Uddingston Station
An urban route mixing busier roads (the B765) with the off-road Clyde Walkway into Uddingston and avoiding a rural 60mph road with no verges. Follows the Clyde Walkway. Detours possible into Cambuslang or Newton to break the journey. Sustrans plan to reopen the Carmyle–Westburn viaduct as a walking and cycling route.
11km. Moderate ascents.
Lunch: The only facilities on the route are a small shop and a pair of pubs in Carmyle, about a third of the way along.
Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route
Shettleston Station to Bargeddie Station
A direct, mostly off-road route on paths and grass through parkland, with some single-track paths and stairs. A short and sometimes overgrown section near a petrol station at Mount Vernon.
Easy: 8km, moderate ascents.
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Rutherglen Station to Shettleston Station
Easy: 5km, moderate ascents.
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Cambuslang Station to Shettleston Station
Easy: 5km, moderate ascents.
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Bishopbriggs Station to Shettleston Station
Easy: 9km, moderate ascents.
The footpath linking Littlehill Golf Club to Acredyke Road (east of Stobhill Hospital) was found overgrown with Japanese knotweed and impassable, not feeling safe underfoot.