rides
Murthly and the Tayside area have some lovely, traffic-free rides to enjoy. Here's a selection of our favourites.
All of these rides are mapped on Viewranger.com - the best biking and walking navigation app around. You can download the routes to your phone and follow along. If you want advice on how to secure your phone to your bike for navigating, just ask - I have many years experience in this area.
A very easy, mostly flat ride on farm tracks, suitable for all ages and abilities. Surface is mostly gravel with some potholes - can be a bit muddy after rain, or stock movements
Murthly Estate Easy Loop - 5.8 Miles
This loop goes out to Loch Rohallion and around the Birnam Wood enclosure on gravel forestry tracks. It then doubles back, and down onto Murthly Estate proper, following the river Tay along mostly flat, grassed tracks. Short sections of quiet country road join up the estate and Birnam Woods sections, with a 50m section of 60mph B-road where care should be taken with children. Look out for beaver activity along the Tayside section past the fishing hut.
A very easy, mostly flat ride on farm tracks, suitable for all ages and abilities. Surface is mostly gravel with some potholes - can be a bit muddy after rain, or stock movementsNOTE: halfway through you need to cross the train tracks at a gated crossing. The gates are circular 'kissing' gates, so bikes need to be lifted over. Take great care crossing the tracks - look, listen, look again. If you can't lift bikes over the railway gates, you can continue on the farm road under the A9 bridge and out to the Pittensorn road. At the estate gates, turn right, cross back over the railway line on the road overbridge, head back under the A9 and turn left into the farm driveway.