Strathfillan Community Development Trust

Cycle Paths

Tyndrum to Killin Cycle Path

Update 2025

Lots of work has been completed over 2024 and early 2025 as we continue to develop plans to extend the Cycle Path beyond Kirkton.

At the beginning of 2024, the Trust secured funding from Sustrans to progress the production of a Feasibility Study, Outline Business Case, Consultation Report and Preliminary Ecological Apprasial for the Kirkton to Killin Cycle Path. The Trust commissioned Land Use Consultants Ltd & Ansons Consulting Ltd to produce this package of reports, which were delivered after a series of public, business & landowner consultation events were held in Strathfillan.

The outcome of this package of works delivered by Land Use Consultants Ltd & Ansons Consulting Ltd was the identification of a Preferred Route Option between Kirkton & Killin. The preferred route option has been chosen through consideration of a number of elements including physical and geographical constraints, compliance with Cycling by Design Guidance, minimising road and rail crossings, maximising use of existing infrastructure, public, business & landowner consultations, and a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal.

Kirkton to Killin Cycle Path - Preferred Route Option

The work undertaken to arrive at this route is detailed in the suite of reports commissioned by Land Use Consultants Ltd & Ansons Consulting Ltd, which can be read in full here:

We are currently working with LUC to further develop the Feasibility Study to consider some details which were left out, including a deeper appraisal of the physical & geographical constraints between Crianlarich and Killin. This should help refine the costings which have been attached to the overall route and provide a further breakdown of the likely phases in which the route will be constructed. Furthermore, LUC are also doing a technical appraisal of the current Tyndrum to Dalrigh cycle path, to understand what additional development will be required for that section to meet Cycle by Design criteria.

In the next financial year, we will be hoping to get further funding from SUSTRANS to continue progressing through the stages of the project's development. The short term focus (<5 years) will be on delivering Phase 2: Kirkton - Crianlarich. This will involve commissioning architectural and technical engineering consultants to deliver an Architectural Concept of the Phase 2 development, and also where we'll begin to seek pre-planning advice.

If you have any questions or would like to know more about the Cycle Path development, please get in touch with our Project Development Officer euan@strathfillancdt.org.uk.

Update 2023

After a hiatus of a couple of years, things are finally moving forward for the Tyndrum to Killin Cycle Path. Towards the end of 2022 a Steering Group was set up to get things going. This includes the Strathfillan Community Development Trust, Killin and Ardeonaig Trust, Sustrans, the Countryside Trust, and a representative from Active Stirling.

We have secured funding through Sustrans to undertake a Feasibility Study for the remainder of the path, from Kirkton to Killin, and hope to have this completed by March 2024.

Phase 1: Tyndrum to Kirkton

The creation of the Tyndrum to Crianlarich Cycle Path has been a community ambition for over 20 years, and in 2016-2017 the first Phase was completed. The Trust supported and facilitated the Countryside Trust, who raised the funds and built the stretch from Tyndrum to Dalrigh car park, which linked Tyndrum to Kirkton Farm. The path became usable around March 2017, and the official opening was in August 2017. It has been praised by Sustran's CEO as one of their favourite stretches of cycle path. Certainly, the views across the Crianlarich Mountains are stunning.

Photos from the Phase 1 Grand Opening - 2017

Phase 2: Kirkton to Crianlarich

As the advert of that well known stout brand says, 'good things come to those that wait'. And that is how the second Phase of the Cycle Path feels. Since 2017 the Trust has been working closely with the Countryside Trust and the National Park to get Phase 2 off the ground. As there are multiple landowners and agencies to deal with it has been much more difficult to move forward.

The Trust spent much of 2018 investigating the possible community purchase of Ewich Woods, however, this has not come to pass and we are looking into different avenues.

Currently, the National Park are leading the project with support from ourselves and the Countryside Trust.

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