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The National Park Gateway Centre, Loch Lomond Shores, Ben Lomond
Way, Balloch G83 8QL. Tel: 01389 722 199. The West Highland Way
is 152km (95 miles) long. The walk links Milngavie to Fort William
- from the outskirts of Scotland’s largest city to the foot
of its highest mountain, following the shores of its largest
freshwater loch. Around 50,000 people walk parts of it every
year. www.west-highland-way.co.uk. It follows the east shore
of Loch Lomond.
Loch Lomond is the largest
expanse of freshwater in Great Britain. The Loch Lomond and the
Trossachs National Park encompasses around 720 sq miles of some
of the finest scenery in Scotland. It is an area of contrasts
from rolling lowland landscapes in the south to high mountains
in the north, and has many lochs and rivers, forests and woodlands.www.lochlomond-trossachs.org.
Balloch Castle, Loch Lomond Tel: 01389 758216. Balloch Castle
Country Park lies within the 170 square miles of Loch Lomond
Regional Park. The visitor centre is in Balloch Castle itself,
but this is a modern version, built in 1808. The original castle
was built in 1238 by the Earls of Lennox (before they built a
more secure stronghold on Inchmurrin Island on the loch). There
is now only a mound and a depression that was the moat, surviving
from the original castle.
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