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Originally Posted by Milky Bar Kid
If I were you, I'd deffo take a look at the places James is talking about. From your location, I would go west on the A75 towards Newton Stewart (my house  ) and at the first junction for Newton Stewart, take the A712. It's a road we all love riding our bikes on around here. As you go up that road, you have a wild goat park, red deer park, grey mares tail, murrays monument, Raider's Road, Clatteringshaws Dam and there's also a small cafe.
I'm unsure if the Kirroghtree Visitor Centre is open at this time of year but it has a play park there and it also has some pretty well reknowned mountain bike trails. Failing that, it has normal trails through the Galloway Forest Park which we used to frequently cycle when we were little. |
Pretty much everywhere was shut, but we managed to hire mountain bikes at Kirroghtree on new Years Eve and all went on the green trail, then the girls decided they'd had anough so me and the boy (6) on the ride along thing tackled the blue trail and had the best time ever!!! It was awesome, he said afterwards 'it was the happiest his heart had ever been!' I will of course remind him of that when he is 18, but it made me smile!
We also did some geo-caching along the queens road (I think), so visited all the other stunning places en-route escpecially the dam, which looked amazing with the fog coming down!
D&G is a lovely place the scenary is nothing short of breath-taking.
Thanks all for the help and advice, you are all very lucky to live in such a nice part of Scotland.