Anybody offer any advice on how far South you can drive on the road from Drumguish before you reach any locked gates.
I was just making some plans because my dog is getting on a bit and 30+ kms might be a bit much. (Aye, aye, i ken, i've told here she needs to learn to pace herself but she obviously knows better!). I thought if I could limit it to 25km or so she would be a lot less likely to peg it out of exhaustion.
Thanks

I've bike through the Gaick a few times, twice northbound to Glen Tromie during 2011 with a trailer on longer rides. I don't recall passing a locked gate at any point and I'm sure I'd have noticed a gate that the trailer would have had to be lifted over. Down at Drumguish, the initial stretch of estate road has been left as a rough dirt road before it soon improves to a worn tarmac surface. Presumably to help prevent too may folk from exploring very far!

It is still a private road with no right to use a motor vehicle without the owners permission. There is no problem with pedestrian or cycle access. Details under access laws

Jim

I got as far as here on streetview.

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I've only ever been in from the south but cant remember the gate situation. Only been as far as Loch an Duin to go hillwalking but the path here has been partially washed away by the river.

Mike in Edinburgh
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I cycled this with the dog last weekend and she didn't seem too fussed about the distance.
Hustler, there is a locked gate, or should i say a gate that gets locked. Coming South, there's a sign at - I think its called the gatehouse - 276345,789832, which says the gate gets locked every night, but it's just a standard farmgate so you'd still get over it if it were closed.
Mike_w, the path does get a bit sketchy but its an easy cycle through all the same. They must have had quite some spates through there to wash away the road as much as it has been.
onyywe, thanks both for your help.