Walk: Castle Aargh! via Jubilee Bridge

📌 Portnacroish, Argyll & Bute
★★★

A trip across the Jubilee Bridge takes you to the closest viewpoint for Castle Stalker (or for Monty Python fans: “Castle Aargh!”) which doesn’t involve getting on a boat. This rickety span crosses tidal marshland and dates from 1898, celebrating Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. The bridge actually fails to do what most bridges are built to do, as the northern approach can flood at high tide; check tide tables before you go or risk wet feet. Aargh!

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish on minor road 1 mi west of Appin (not Port Appin)

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NM 924465

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 56.564456,-5.380410

🚌 Bus to Appin (1 mi)

🚗 Car park

📝 Key info

▶ 3 km / 2 mi | ▲ 20 m | ⌛ 1.5 hr

Features: 🌉 Jubilee Bridge; 🏰 Castle Stalker (view of)

⬤ Easy | Good path, tarmac cycle path & stony shoreline. Boardwalks north of Jubilee Bridge can be submerged by the highest tides; a little mud near the shore.

➡️ Clockwise lollipop circuit: start – Jubilee Bridge – cross Glenstockdale Burn – viewpoint for Castle Stalker via Loch Laich shoreline – cycle path to east – regain outward route to southeast – south

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Horses, cows, gulls, a few ripe blackberries & a very hungry caterpillar.

Weather: 10°C or so with sunshine & a brief shower.

October 2016