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Yellow Trail


(Average user rating4 unrated 4/5)

About Yellow Trail

From the car park, follow the yellow waymarkers up through some huge Douglas Fir trees to the bridge over the Inverness to Perth railway line.

Cross the bridge and on to a crossroads - carry straight on, which will bring you to St Mary's Well (also known as the Clootie Well). Legend has it that if a person dips a cloth into the well's water, and then ties it to the branch of a nearby tree, then all that persons ailments and troubles will be transferred to the tree until the rag rots away. A similar well is to be found near Munlochy on the Black Isle.

Continue along the footpath, past the Prisoners Stone where it is believed 17 prisoners were shot after the Battle of Culloden, and back to the forest road. Turn left, then first right to the railway underpass and follow the road above the houses back to the car park.

How to get there:

Yellow Trail can be started from Culloden Car Park in Culloden Wood. Culloden is the nearest town or village.

At the BP petrol station on the main access road into Smithton and Culloden, turn right at the traffic lights onto Tower Road.

Go 100 metres beyond the Inverness Forest District Office and turn left into the car park.

OS Grid Reference: NH718456
For details of public transport visit http://www.travelinescotland.com

SITKA AND NORWAY SPRUCE STANDS

Culloden Car Park Facilities.
Parking
Grade of trail:
Sensible footwareEasy
Trail waymarking:
yellow
Length of trail:
1.5 miles
Approximate time of trail:
1 hour 30 minutes
Open or closed:
open
Click here to find out what else you can do in this forest.

Contact:

Inverness District OfficeRecreation
01463 791575
e-mail: invernessross&skye@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

User Comments

4 Stars 4 Stars

S B McBRIDE, 28/Jun/2011
4 Stars 4 Stars

I have been jogging around Culloden woods for a number of years. It is really nice for a walk too, I would have given 5 stars, but I feel the amount trees cut down in recent times has spoiled it abit, specially around the Prisoners stone. But I really like St Mary's Well and hope they don't change it, there is a strange feeling I get when I'm at that well.

Ricky W Milne, 20/Feb/2011
4 Stars 4 Stars

it is a good walk

craig, 25/Dec/2009

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