This enjoyable loop starts through the dense forestry plantations of Drimmie Wood but this leads onto the lovely Tullyfergus estate on fine old drove roads with ponds, woods and wild flowers.
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1. There is a parking area on the right hand side of the Drimmie Road around 4km out from Blairgowrie. There are views across the weir to the church. The walk, which is signed 'Drimmie Woods', starts by heading south almost parallel to the road along the edge of the forest. It then meets a forest track; turn left into the dense plantations of Sitka spruce. Small wooden boards decorated by community members are attached to many of the trees, and a little further on a wooden sculpture of a spider's web stretches between two of the spruces. The track bends left by a small quarry.
2. Continue through the dark plantation, ignoring tracks going off to the sides. Eventually the route becomes a path, and a signpost indicates a turn right into the trees on the needle-clad but barren forest floor. It then re-emerges into daylight and the route follows a grassy track; a marker indicates where it bends left. The countryside here is much more open and varied, with many species of trees, wild flowers and clear areas highlighting the poor environment provided by the spruce plantation just left behind.
3. A beautiful pond is passed on the left, with distant views of the Angus hills and a windfarm. Just beyond the pond the track widens to a spacious area with a marker post indicating the route straight ahead. Turn right here onto a wide path. This is part of an ancient drove route, so you are following in the footsteps of the drovers, men from the Highlands bringing cattle down to market to Blairgowrie and beyond.
4. The drove route is now just a grass path giving fine views over the Strath to the Sidlaw Hills, and lined with a mix of old stone walls, rowan trees, copses, flowers and meadows. It passes through a wooden gate and eventually emerges on a minor road opposite a farm. Turn left and follow the road for around one and a half kilometres.
5. Where the road bends sharp right just after West Tullyfergus farm, turn left through a gate onto a track signed for Drimmie Woods.he track is another fine old drove route. It rejoins the outward route just before the pond. From here retrace your steps back through the Sitka Spruce plantations to return to the car park and the start.
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