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| View from the summit out towards Loch Leven (click/tap to enlarge image) |
The Ochil Hills between Stirling and Perth are a favourite place of ours to take the dogs. There are many quiet routes where you may see the occasional other walker or mountain biker or sometimes nobody else at all. I covered one such route from Menstrie last month. Here's another quiet route up Innerdouny Hill in the Glen Devon forest (not to be confused with Innerdownie Hill in the Glen Sherup forest to the south), accessible from a small, free car park off the B934 that cuts through the hills from Muckhart.
The summit is 497m but it's not too much of a slog as the path climbs gradually up to it. It's a there and back route of 2.85 miles each way (5.7 miles in total). The majority of our walk is via a good forestry track but once you turn off on to the path up the hill itself, there are some boggy / muddy sections. You can skirt around the edges of them and they don't present too much of a challenge but I would recommend walking boots. The muddy sections are rather more challenging after heavy rain. Some people shorten the return journey by cutting down the other side of the hill back to the forestry track but there is no defined path, it's quite overgrown and is generally very muddy. I wouldn't therefore recommend it.
You can find a Google Maps link to the car park, route maps and GPX navigation file at the end of the article. Information is current as of our last visit in June 2022. All images can be clicked / tapped to enlarge them.
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| Our walk starts at the Little Rig car park, approximately 3.5 miles up the B934 from Yetts O' Muckhart (click / tap to enlarge image) |
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The car park is small but usually pretty quiet
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Our route follows the forestry track through the gate at the end of the car park.
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