📌 Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park, Inverclyde
★★★
🛠️ Trail currently closed (checked July 2025)
Signposted as a nature trail, the most interesting elements of this short walk in Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park are ironically manmade. An ingenious series of boardwalks and bridges makes up the wooded middle part of the route along the Kip Water, with elevated wooden sections stretching for nearly a kilometre – great for children. Meanwhile, the first and last parts of the circuit follow portions of the lengthy Greenock Cut and Kelly Cut aqueducts. These carry water to and from nearby Compensation Reservoir, and give fleeting views towards the Firth of Clyde and more distant hills of Argyll.
📷 Chronological photo guide
🌍 Location
📌 Start / finish at Greenock Cut Visitor Centre, Cornalees Bridge, minor road 2 mi east of Inverkip
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NS 247722
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.910604,-4.806525
❌ No public transport within 1 mi
🚗 Car park
📝 Key info
▶ 3 km / 2 mi | ▲ 70 m | ⌛ 1 hr
Features: 🏠 Greenock Cut Visitor Centre; 💧 Greenock Cut; 💧 Kelly Cut
⬤ Easy | Rough & narrow descent to Kip Water then wooden boardwalk with steps. Wide, level paths elsewhere.
Download file for GPS➡️ Anticlockwise circuit: start & visitor centre – Greenock Cut – turn left at path junction before Shielhill Farm – Kip Water – Kelly Cut – start. Official route map / leaflet 🔗 here
🥾 On our last visit
Wildlife: Sheep around Kelly Cut, a few midges.
Weather: Evening sunlight, temperature in low teens.
October 2015
