CountrysideAyrshire & ArranNational 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 Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.
Cladach car park by the brewery is the start of the main Goatfell path; Brodick Castle car park (free for members) has paths to it; Glen Rosa campsite has limited parking.
Goatfell is the highest point on the Isle of Arran at 874 metres, rising behind Brodick Castle with a summit view over the island, the Firth of Clyde and Jura, Ben Lomond and, on a clear day, Ireland. The National Trust for Scotland cares for 2,400 hectares of the mountain and its neighbours, granite ridges and corries with dwarf juniper, heather, tiger beetles and emperor moths, golden eagles and buzzards overhead, and red deer on the slopes. The main path starts from Cladach car park by the brewery near the castle and climbs steadily for around three to five hours there and back, with the rockier route over North Goatfell from Glen Rosa or Corrie for scramblers. Reviewers say it is a challenge worth every step and that the Corrie route has one tricky scramble. Tips from visitors: pick a clear day or you will see nothing, wear proper boots, keep dogs close in lambing and calving season, and Brodick Castle has the nearest toilets and refreshments.
No facilities on the mountain. Toilets and refreshments (April to October) at Brodick Castle, Garden & Country Park.
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Dogs, with restrictions
From Cladach and back; 6 1/2 miles (10.5km), 4 1/2 to 6 hours, difficult, 830m ascent; a serious undertaking in winter or bad weather.
