Walking at Dùn Coillich

  • Rural Skills Course Fence Maintenance
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • First Aid Rural Skills 3
  • Prominent Moth Caterpillar DC 20170905
  • Treeplanting
  • Badger Dùn Coillich
  • Monitoring Natural Regeneration
  • Route marking: Dùn Coillich
  • White Dome Cap Dùn Coillich
  • School group with Professor Russell Coope 2012 Dùn Coillich
  • Robin and Gillian Hull Memorial Bench
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Breadalbane S1 on Dun Coillich summit
  • Moth Trap overnight 25/26 Sept Dùn Coillich
  • Moth caught in the moth trap overnight. (25-26/9/17) Dùn Coillich
  • First Aid Rural Skills 3
  • Fencing volunteers in 2013 — Dùn Coillich
  • Britains heaviest spider, the 4-spot orb-weaver Araneus Quadratus DC 20170905
  • Fence wire transport on the contraption Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course Tree Planting
  • LANTRA Training
  • Schiehallion from Dùn Coillich
  • Footpath Upgrades
  • Witches' Butter (Exidia glandulosa) Dùn Coillich
  • Having a break from work 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Schiehallion from Dùn Coillich
  • Sneezewort Dùn Coillich
  • Wire transport for fencing 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Butterfly Surveying
  • Northern Eggar Moth caterpillar Dùn Coillich
  • BBQ Autumn 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Breadalbane Rural Skills Pupils
  • Tree Growth Dùn Coillich
  • White Dome Cap Fungus Dùn Coillich
  • Dun Coillich Walking maps and leaflets
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Puss Moth caterpillar Dùn Coillich
  • Recording biodiversity
  • Tree planting
  • Northern Eggar Moth caterpillar near the Allt Mor (30/5/17)
  • Food for Beaver Scouts after their hard work at Dùn Coillich
  • Petty Whin Dùn Coillich
  • Camera Trap
  • Trail marking
  • Rural Skills Training Path Upgrade
  • Caddis Fly Larva: Dùn Coillich
  • Joint working party with John Muir Trust in 2013 — at Dùn Coillich
  • Fungus Hunt Dùn Coillich August 2017
  • Rural Skills Course: Improving Access
  • Club Moss (Lycopodium) Dùn Coillich
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • White Dome Cap Dùn Coillich
  • Allt Mohr: Dùn Coillich
  • Rob Coope helping with transport in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course 5 Brushcutting
  • Sandra Winter working on Trish's enclosure in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Bog Asphodel Dùn Coillich
  • Clearing Bracken from around newly planted trees.
  • Breadalbane Tree Planting
  • Sundew Dùn Coillich
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Elderberry Dùn Coillich
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Great Diving Beetle (Dytiscus marginalis) Dùn Coillich
  • Small pearl fritillary Dùn Coillich
  • Fencing Dùn Coillich
  • BBQ October 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Juniper Dùn Coillich

Where to walk?

There are 12kms of way-marked walking trails on Dùn Coillich that you are welcome to explore. The trails will take you across the wide range of habitats we have on Dùn Coillich. The walking trails are not formally laid paths and in places are rough and wet underfoot. So please wear appropriate footwear.

Enjoy your walk, the views, the wildlife, and the countryside you are in. But watch where you walk - there are holes, flowers, adders and ground nesting birds, so please, keep to the marked trails.

Please respect the Scottish Outdoor Access Code. 

You are responsible for your own safety. Walking tip - keep a survival blanket in your backpack and a whistle in your pocket.

» Download a map showing parking areas and walking trails (2.4MB pdf).

Mobile Phone?

Be aware that whilst the area around the carpark has 4G connectivity, many parts of the hill have no phone coverage. And always take with you a fully charged battery for your phone.

Got a Dog?

Great, but please keep it under control. From March to July, keep it on a lead to avoid disturbing ground-nesting pipits, larks, merlin, grouse, short-eared owl, etc.

Walking Trails

Suggested routes are marked on this map showing parking and trails. All start at footbridge below main carpark but are not "constructed" paths. Surfaces are often uneven. Off route, there may also be holes. Many will be natural cavities created by water. Others result from "mounding" for tree planting. TAKE CARE.

Ponds

In and near the ponds, soil may be soft. Don't lose your boot! TAKE CARE.

Adders

If you are quiet, you may see adders when they are still warming up in the morning sunshine. Watch, enjoy, and photograph, but do not touch or alarm them. If you or your dog is bitten, don’t panic. Leave the hill, and seek prompt medical attention.

Ticks

Ticks are here as elsewhere, some carry Lyme disease. Check yourself, your children and your dogs when you get home. If you find any, deal with them properly. Be Tick Aware.

Flowers

There are many to see and enjoy, but please don’t pick them or dig them up.

Birds

Many to see and enjoy. If you see blackcock displaying on a lek, make yourself comfortable, enjoy the spectacle with your binoculars, use a long range lens on your camera, and please try not to disturb them.

Deer

Until trees are further established, shooting must sometimes take place, at differing times and locations. Cullers will never put people at risk, so relax.

Interesting experiences/sightings?

Send them to our website www.hpclt.org. Want to see some recent photos? Put Dùn Coillich in Facebook search box. Want to know more, become a Trust member, or volunteer for activities on the land? Go to www.hpclt.org, email info@hpclt.org, or phone 01882 632212/ 01887 820315.

Enjoy your walk


EMERGENCY?

If you have a problem and need help, call 999 and ask for Police. They are responsible for all land based rescues and will alert Mountain Rescue Team etc. They will need to know where you are; you may not know your own Grid Reference but you can still help by giving your position relative to a recognisable point such as Dùn Coillich Carpark (NN769 529), or Whitebridge Cottage carpark (NN773 539) - marked as Kissing gate on map, or Braes of Foss-Schiehallion Carpark (NN753 556). You probably started your walk at one of these three places.

» Download this information as a pdf file (179kb pdf)

» Download a map showing parking areas and walking trails (2.4MB pdf).