CountrysideStirlingshireNational Trust for Scotland4.9
Free entry for National Trust members
This place is cared for by the National Trust for Scotland, a separate charity. Under the INTO reciprocal visiting arrangement, National Trust members from England, Wales and Northern Ireland get free standard entry. Show your current membership card at admissions.
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Free for everyone. The Rowardennan car park is pay and display and not run by the Trust, so membership does not cover it.
£5 all day at Rowardennan. Not a Trust car park, so membership does not cover it.
Pay and display car park at Rowardennan at the end of the B837 from Drymen, £5 all day, card accepted; Blue Badge holders free. Toilets and a beach on the loch. It fills by mid-morning in summer; disabled parking at Ardess Lodge by arrangement.
Ben Lomond is the most southerly Munro at 974 metres rising straight from the east shore of Loch Lomond with a summit view down the whole loch and across the Trossachs. The National Trust for Scotland cares for the mountain from lochside oakwoods to the crags, and the main path from Rowardennan is a steady climb of about four hours there and back, with the rockier Ptarmigan ridge as a return for confident walkers. The one-mile Ardess Hidden History Trail near the ranger base takes in the remains of a farming township and a thatched cruck-framed replica of the houses that stood here 300 years ago, and rangers lead guided walks in season. Reviewers praise the toilets, the loch beach and the views. Tips from visitors: the road from Drymen is single-track for 12 miles, the pay and display car park at Rowardennan fills by mid-morning in summer, keep dogs on a lead for the livestock, and the summer waterbus from Tarbet lands nearby.
Ranger base at Ardess Lodge, Rowardennan. Guided walks can be booked with the rangers in season.
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Dogs, with restrictions
Up and down the main path from Rowardennan car park; 8 miles (13km), 4 to 6 hours, hard, 930m ascent; Forestry and Land Scotland pay and display parking.
Dog access not confirmed
1 mile, 40 minutes, easy to moderate; parking and toilets at the car park.
