by Richardwallace » Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:51 pm
Date walked: 04/10/2022
Time taken: 7 hours
Distance: 17.5 km
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Be aware that despite the route being excellent, the car park has been chained off for no good reason.
We ended up parking well off the road well out side invavar , not blocking the access to anything and not in a passing place. We parked very considerately. There were several other walking groups who had done similar. The Perth and Kinross council had sent a parking warden out ( it’s pretty remote here!) to ticket all the cars. There is no signage warning you of this just a few overgrown old urban clearway signs 2 miles out side the village! I had to look the sign up in the Highway Code to be sure!
no alternate parking is provided as the car park is shut.
The fact that on a Sunday the wardens had traveled all this way must mean they know they are going to get victims of this and be able to issue lots of fines.
If the parking in the area was causing an actual issue then “no parking” signage would be in place. There is no alternate parking provided. You have have to park several miles away from the start of the route to avoid this, in fact we looked for a usable Parking spot on the return journey just to see how far the nearest alternate one was and gave up after 4 miles from the start of the walk.
We discussed this with several other walkers all who had fallen victims to this trap and the opinion was that the car park was shut off to deter people using the walk possibly in favour of those up the hill shooting deer during the staking season.
The ticketing is pretty clinical profiteering and a punishment for those wishing to exercise there right to roam.
It is shame, as it is a great route. Just not worth paying £60 in fines to do.
