Trail (UK)

Creag Bheag

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1 NH756007 North of the main street, Ardvonie car park has a walks signboard. From its corner, slant up the top of a grass park to a street and turn uphill, following signs and waymarks for Creag Bheag. Where trees are on the left, a wide signposted path forks off after 50m. It zigzags uphill then contours left below a crag.

2 NH750008 After 250m bear right on the path slightly uphill. Soon the path (doubling here as a stream) turns uphill, to exit the plantation­s. Keep uphill on the well rebuilt path to the cairn at the top of Creag Bheag.

3 NH744014 Head north-east to another cairn, and down a well-made but quite steep path towards the foot of Loch Gynack. Keep ahead at a path junction, and just above the loch bend right into a plantation. Pass through it to a gate onto the top of Kingussie golf course.

4 NH752023 The path heads across the top of the golf course, then bends down left to a golfers' bridge over the Gynack Burn. Turn downhill on a tarmac lane for 300m, to a track on the left into a plantation signed for Tom Baradh. (Just continuing down the lane is a short cut back to Kingussie.)

5 NH755018 Turn left into the plantation, and at once turn left again on a waymarked path. It follows the top edge of the plantation to its corner, then turns down south-east, still in the trees. At the slope foot ignore a small gate left, signed for Raitts (a faint path leads for 1km to the Raitts Souterrain, an ancient undergroun­d room). Instead bear right for 200m to a ladder stile.

6 NH764014 Across

the stile a rough track leads down to the right of a nearby house called Kerrow. Join its access track and follow it down to the A86 at the edge of Kingussie. Turn right, into the village.

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3 2 4 1 5 6
 ??  ?? Above Loch Gynack, on the path down Creag Bheag.
Above Loch Gynack, on the path down Creag Bheag.
 ??  ?? The Spey valley and Newtonmore from Creag Bheag.
The Spey valley and Newtonmore from Creag Bheag.

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