📌 Galloway Forest Park, Dumfries & Galloway
★★★
Sounding like something straight out of a J. R. R. Tolkien novel, the Rhinns of Kells ridge soars high above endless swathes of the Galloway Forest Park. Traversing between Corserine and Meikle Millyea makes for a great easy-going ridge walk. Local place names rival the views for entertainment – from the ridge, scan the landscape for Loch Dungeon, Rig of the Jarkness and even the Range of the Awful Hand. Nearby, Meikle Lump must have been christened on an off-day. The Forrest Estate, where you start and finish, is full of oddly-named tracks too. A strange and mysterious place, that’s for sure…
📷 Chronological photo guide
Corserine from the edge of the forest 
Glenkens forestry 
Ascent to Corserine 
View from the ascent 
Corserine summit 
Emerging above the cloud layer on approach to Milldown 
Following the wall along the ridge 
Above the clouds at Milldown summit 
Brocken spectre (left) & wild goats (right) 
Meikle Millyea just visible through the cloud 
Looking back over the Lochans of Auchniebut to Milldown 
Descent from Meikle Lump
🌍 Location
📌 Start / finish at Forrest Estate car park, minor road end 5 mi northwest of St John’s Town of Dalry
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NX 553863
🛰️ GPX coordinates: 55.149417,-4.272352
❌ No public transport within 1 mi
🚗 Car park
📝 Key info
▶ 17 km / 11 mi | ▲ 900 m | ⌛ 5.5-6.5 hr
Features: △ Corserine (814 m, Corbett / Donald); △ Milldown (738 m, Donald); △ Meikle Millyea (746 m, Donald)
⬤ Tough | Good tracks & paths in forest. Faint, intermittent paths on ascent to, along & from ridge, wet in places.
Download file for GPS➡️ Anticlockwise circuit: start – Folk Burn north of Craigbrock – Corserine – Milldown – Meikle Millyea – Meikle Lump – track west of McAdam’s Burn – start
🥾 On our last visit
Wildlife: Wild goats on Milldown.
Weather: Dull and murky beneath inversion layer, extensive sunshine when all too briefly above it! Light winds but feeling chilly.
November 2014
