📌 Paisley, Renfrewshire
★★★
First appearances suggest that council budget cuts haven’t been kind to Paisley‘s local country park. Potholed car parks, weeds poking through tarmac footpaths, but also some of the best views of Glasgow from the Car park in the sky (including at night, if you ignore the site’s potential as a dogging location), and a waterfall that seems too impressive to be allowed so near to an urban area. Despite being so close to Paisley’s southern suburbs that you can hear the ice cream van making its rounds of Glenburn, you’ve every chance of having the paths to yourself on a sunny summer evening.
Gleniffer Braes ★★★
🌍 Location
📌 Best viewpoint at the “Car park in the sky” (Robertson Park) is on Gleniffer Road (B775), 1 mi south of Foxbar, Paisley
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NS 455607
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.814361,-4.467415
🚌 Caplaw Road (west side of park) or Glenburn Road junction with Jura Road (for east side)
🚗 Use “Car park in the sky” (see above) for west side of park. Further car parks off Braehead Road (middle of park) & Glenfield Road (east side) – see below
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
Craigielinn Waterfall ★★★
🌍 Location
📌 Downstream of Glenburn Reservoir, 0.5 mi south of Glenburn, Paisley
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NS 475605
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.813726,-4.435921
🚌 Caplaw Road (steeply downhill)
🚗 Car parks off Braehead Road, 🧭 NS 472606 / 🛰️ 55.814293,-4.440786 or Glenfield Road, 🧭 NS 481608 / 🛰️ 55.816561,-4.425514
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
💬 The waterfall is a 5-min walk east of Braehead Road car park (or 10-min uphill walk west of Glenfield Road car park) on sometimes muddy paths.
