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This was so beautiful! We started at the crack of dawn and were serenaded by birds and the thrum of wind turbines. It was all rolling hills, bubbling streams and we had to climb over a couple of stiles. We got a great breakfast bap at Bridge of Earn. I would really recommend this section alone.

Lovely! Lots not do-able on bikes - but a great walk.

I really enjoyed this walk. All of it was do-able and true to the route. The walk from Milnathort to Glenfarg large follows a quiet and very walkable road, that goes through a lot of farm land with gentle, rolling hills. You follow the same road out of Glenfarg until veering off onto a farm road to the left, where you shortly hit Lochelbank windfarm. There was something quite lovely about walking alongside these silent big pieces of machinery with sheep gathering underneath. We enjoyed the idea of keeping to Wallace Road which in fact translates to climbing over stiles through open fields, past the skeleton remains of an old farm house and over a little twinkly river. We spoke to a fellow walker along the path through Dron Hill into the Bridge of Earn who complained that the track through the fields was too muddy, but we found it to be fine (with nothing to compare it to!) and very pleasant. Lots of little bits of woodlands and loud birds. We made it to the Bridge of Earn where there is little choice for food. The Earn cafe was unfortunately closed so we landed on a small bakery selling some baps, which helped warm us up.

Really lovely route, walked in reverse (Bridge of Earn to Milnathort) on a nice sunny and windy autumnal day. We didn't see another soul on the route and it was beautiful. There are great views back to the North and of the Lomond Hills as you get nearer Milnathort. I wouldn't say it's the most direct route, it does 2 quite big diversions up hills and across open country - faster routes exist using "cycling and walking friendly" roads.

There are quite a few gates that are hard to open - some held to, with twisted bits of wire - and some stiles that would make it hard for some. The first part of the walk up the hill follows well made tracks for a while but you arrive at a section where the tracks peter out and its not obvious where to go; the grass is very long and its actually quite hard walking. However it is quite interesting when you pass an ruined farm (West Dron Farm) and get close to a wind farm and walk then along part of Wallace Road.

The village of Glenfarg is about halfway where could abort if you were tired - unfortunately there is no café there, only a shop. After Glenfarg, there is more uphill and countryside. In one field, there was a sign to "beware of cows with calves". There were no cows and calves just a herd of curious bullocks who followed us through the field - not dangerous but would spook some people.

At the end of the walk there is an excellent café in Milnathort called Heaven Scent which is well worth a visit.

This is an excellent route, being totally on core paths, roads with a 40mph speed limit ('walking & cycling friendly road'), and footways (pavements) within settlements. However cows were pastured in some of the fields through which the paths pass, which I found intimidating. The route was correctly mapped, the only slight problem being where a new fence has been erected beside, and crossing, the Wallace Road, but there is a pedestrian gate to pass through. The route as a whole is unsuitable for wheelers due to rough ground and stiles on the Wallace Road, but it could be possible to use the quiet roads linking Milnathort and Bridge of Earn. There is a village shop, and bus stops, in Glenfarg, approximately half way.

The route leaves Milnathort along a back street, the Old Perth Road, which it follows over the motorway and uphill as far as Blairnathort; this road is a ' walking & cycling friendly road'. It then takes a farm track, (which is not signposted), passing close to Birniehill where cows and calves were encountered. To avoid this potential problem it would be possible to continue along either of the quiet roads linking Glenfarg and Milnathort. The route drops down into Glenfarg along a second 'walking & cycling friendly road'.

North of Glenfarg the route follows a footway to Paris Bridge, then another 'walking & cycling friendly road' until the ancient Right of Way, the Wallace Road, is gained. It follows the windfarm access track past Lochelbank until just within the windfarm. More cows were encountered here but they were less inquisitive. A stile leads over the fence, then the Wallace Road runs east of the old wall (ignore the signpost to West Dron which was pointing in the wrong direction, over a ploughed field). The area around the narrow Dron Burn was the only boggy part of the whole route (which I walked during a dry May). There is an old metal stile and a newer timber stile on slightly dryer ground here. Heading northwards, uphill, the line of the Wallace Road is just discernable, parallel to a new forestry fence, but the ground is rough. At the ruins of West Dron Hill Farm the fence must be crossed at a pedestrian gate. Just north of a small lochan nearby a track becomes more defined, and this is followed beside the forest of West Dron Hill, down to West Dron. Note that the Wallace Road is only occasionally waymarked.

From West Dron there are short sections of 'walking & cycling friendly road' linked by a good path past Summerfield Wood. In Bridge of Earn the route first follows footways, then a meandering burnside path behind houses, to Edinburgh Road and the centre of Bridge of Earn.

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