The park’s impressive rocky mountains reach to the sky, but you don’t have to work hard to enjoy its wonderful countryside. Here are some of our favourites:

• At Ardentinny the Riverside Trail is an easy, fairly level route by the water – it looks wonderful in spring when the bluebells are out.

• At Corlarach, above Dunoon, trails will take you away from the buzz of the town to woodland where you might spot red deer or circling buzzards.

• Puck’s Glen is as enchanted as its name suggests, with an exciting trek up a wooded gorge and drifts of rhododendrons in summer.

• Try Lochgoilhead for trails that will feel as if you’re in very remote country. The woods here are alive with birdsong in spring.

• If you do feel like something strenuous, Arrochar is the starting point for hill routes up the Arrochar Alps, including the famous Cobbler.