Glentrool

The Glen

The Glen Stats

Grade: Green - Easy
Distance: 6Km
Singletrack: 35 %
Estimated Time To Ride The Route: 1 hr

The Glen and Palgowan trails start out together sharing track on the blue route. The trail crosses the Black Linn Bridge and meanders along its banks, through tall larch trees, before joining forest track.

 

Continue climbing out of the trees and onto a section of contouring singletrack, following it to a road crossing where you can choose your route.

 

If you take the Glen route continue on the same gentle singletrack as the blue route around the Pulnagashel Glen before dropping back down on forest tracks which lead back to the visitor centre.

The Trails view grading charts

Visitor Comments

tony and sophie(7 years old)
09/08/12
Did The Glen a couple of weeks ago and it was well cool, views were fantastic. Quite hard for a 7 year old but still very enjoyable!
Stacey
15/05/10
Luckily living only an hour away makes Glentrool very accessible for me, as I begin my mountain biking career anew after a gap of ten years. Have ridden both green routes and the blue route over the last week or so, and loved every minute of it, even the climbs. Today was great - beautiful warm sunshine as we tackled The Palgowan and Green Tor. The Green Tor (blue route) scared the living daylights out of me but was still a huge amount of fun. Highly recommended, and I know how lucky I am to have this practically on my doorstep!

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Facilities

Catering

 Forestry Commission Scotland is currently tendering for businesses to run the catering at all the visitor centres in the Galloway Forest Park.

We are hoping to get caterers in at Kirroughtree as soon as possible and at Clatteringshaws and Glentrool once the centres are fully open, hopefully at the end of July.

In the meantime, if you are visiting Kirroughtree, you can still get light refreshments from the Breakpad bikeshop.
We apologise for any inconvenience whilst the construction work to upgrade and build all the centres is carrying on. We promise to keep the website up to date to keep everyone informed of any changes. www.forestry.gov.uk/gallowayforestpark

Nearby Newton Stewart also has a good selection of places to eat and drink.

Parking

Car parking is available at Glentrool Visitor Centre. Parking costs £2 per day.

 

Toilets

Works are still on going at the visitor centre and the new toilet block.

Bike Hire

There is  a seasonal bike hire service from The Break Pad, Tel 01671 401303 or contact www.thebreakpad.com for more details.

Bike hire also available from Courtyard Cycle Hire on Tel 01671 830286 or contact www.courtyardcyclehire.co.uk.

Kirkcowan Cycles sell bikes and  offer a repair service, Tel 01671 830286 or contact www.kirkcowancycles.co.uk

 

Trail Conditions

Current at 18th June 2013.

Trails: Open with diversions, see below. 

Conditions: Good.

Diversions: Diversions on the Purple big country route from the Caldons road end at marker 50 to marker 13. Please follow the main road from the Caldons to the Brogan. At marker 34 to 39 the trail is diverted the back onto the main road round by Clatteringshaws loch due to harvesting at the black loch.

Other: Glentrool Visitor Centre : Closed  

Telephone: 01671 840302.

 

Today's Weather

Partly Cloudy
50°F / 10°C

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