Firkin Point

Firkin Point picnic area and car park has been developed to make use of the old shore-hugging A82 trunk road. All of the route is surfaced and provides excellent level walking. The car park and picnic area is open from 10am through 8pm from April to October. Outside these times there is no vehicular access to the old road but there are other access points shown on the map.

It is possible to do a return walk of 3 miles in each direction along the shore of Loch Lomond. If this is too far then shorter walks can be done to the viewpoints at Rubha Dhub (0.5m north) and Rubha Mor (0.5m south), these points have excellent views along the Loch. Across the Loch is Ptarmigan Lodge and above this is a track which traverses the hill through oak woodland. This is the line of the West Highland Way, a long distance footpath running from Milngavie (pronounced mullguy) to Fort William.

Loch Lomond is the largest area of fresh water in the UK. The deepest point (600') is just off Rubha Mor. It supplies central Scotland with 100 million gallons of soft clear water daily.