📌 Tarland, Aberdeenshire
★★
Queen Victoria was suitably impressed with the view even from the start of this walk (giving rise to the name Queen’s View) and you should be too, as the panorama from the summit of nearby Craiglich is even better. There’s nothing special about the short ascent on forestry tracks, but once you escape the trees you’re rewarded with views of many of Aberdeenshire’s familiar hills, including Lochnagar (shrouded in fog on our visit), Morven, Pressendye and Bennachie.
📷 Chronological photo guide
🌍 Location
📌 Start / finish at layby on B9119 at West Tillylodge, 4 mi east of Tarland
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NJ 527064
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 57.145622,-2.783659
🚌 Extremely infrequent bus stops at Tillylodge, nearby to east
🚗 Layby
📝 Key info
▶ 5 km / 3 mi | ▲ 170 m | ⌛ 1.5 hr
Features: △ Craiglich (476 m, sub-2000′ Marilyn)
⬤ Moderate | Reasonable tracks – the first few hundred metres churned up by logging activity on our trip.
Download file for GPS➡️ Out-and-back walk to Craiglich summit
🥾 On our last visit
Wildlife: Birds in the forest, otherwise not much.
Weather: Mostly cloudy but dry, temperatures in single figures.
April 2014
