Cambus O' May Car Park

 

The main car park leads directly onto four waymarked walks, a permanent orienteering course, a viewpoint, picnic table and a couple of trails which are wheelchair accessible.

If you leave the paths and go into the forest during the spring and summer, please keep your dog under very close control - either at heel or on a lead. This is to help protect capercaillie.

Even if you are unable to leave your car, the views from the car park alone are terrific, looking out over Deeside to Lochnagar in the distance - especially good on a clear day!

All-Access Path - West Lochan
Viewpoint
Auld Road Trail
Dog Loop
All-Access Path - East Lochan
Two Lochan Trail
Lochside Trail
Pine Tree Trail

How to get there:

Cambus O' May Car Park is in Cambus O' May which is part of Upper Deeside Forests. Ballater, Dinnet, and Aboyne are the nearest towns or villages.

From Ballater, take the A93 east. Cambus O'May car park is sign posted on your left roughly 4 km from the edge of Ballater.

OS Grid Reference: NO 404 981

Facilities:

Activities

	All-Access Path - West Lochan Viewpoint Auld Road Trail Dog Loop All-Access Path - East Lochan Two Lochan Trail Lochside Trail Pine Tree Trail
	Crossbills feed on Scots pine cones, leaving behind a trail of torn cones. Buzzards often wheel overhead, and the laughing yaffle of a green woodpecker cuts the quiet of the wood. Capercaillie are very rare birds, and their numbers are in sharp decline. We think there are only roughly 1,000 birds left in Scotland. They are very vulnerable during spring and summer, when the hens are sitting on eggs, and when the young birds can't fly very well.
	There is a permanent orienteering course here, and maps are available from the Tourist Information Office in Ballater and Aboyne Community Centre.
	There are a number of picnic tables around the car park and the lochans.
	There is a viewpoint next to the car park where you can see up Deeside and on to Lochnagar.

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