Very scenic walk in Stank Glen. Despite its unglamorous name, there is nothing stank about it - its simply beautiful.

We were looking for a decent walk but not too long as we were a bit late getting out on this March Sunday.We chose Stank Glen because we wanted to check out Ben Ledi for another time.


Gorgeous views of Ben Ledi and Loch Lubnaig to boot.


We got to the car park around 12.30pm and it was chocka. Luckily some speedy soul was just leaving so we nabbed his place.  

We left the car park and headed straight on along the road towards the Forest Lodges for a kilometer or so. A very pleasant stretch this was too.




We swung left up a track about 500m before the lodges and followed the waymarkers.

At the first bend we follow a wee path to detour to a waterfall. Then we realised we could have carried on to the 3rd bend to detour downhill to the waterfall.



After returning to the track instead of  turning left and following it around another bend, we took the path on the right heading uphill. There used to be trees here but they’ve been cut down. We zig zagged up until we reached a track.

Here it was a right then a quick left onto a path which climbed quite steeply. Looking back at the view was breathtaking.



The path comes to a track where there's a wide cleared area. We went wrong here and turned right until ,we reached a junction. Sometimes we force a set of written instructions into our belief system! Anyway we re-traced our steps and saw what we should have done was to go straight across this track. We then followed the path as it curved around the left side of the glen.

We crossed the 3 streams - quite a lot of water after heavy rain the day before.

.At the head of the glen, there is a narrow but defined path to the left which goes to Ben Ledi (for another time).

We turned right to cross a pretty deep and fast-flowing stream with stepping stones.There are nice views back down the glen.



We headed back down reaching a T junction, then turning left here to continue descending and the track bends left to a junction. Now supposedly there is an option to go left to look at the view of Loch Lubnaig … don’t do this as the trees have grown so much that you can see diddly squat.

So we did a sharp right here still following the waymarkers. There's a lovely view of Ben Ledi.


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Then it was just a matter of following the track downhill. There’s another ‘non viewpoint’ to see the waterfall – yup! Blocked by trees!!

Eventually we came to the holiday lodges. We stopped in at the friendly café at the lodges for tea and cake before heading back to the car.

All in all a good choice for the day.