There are delightful glimpses of Loch Achray between the trees at the car park. Here the winding hill route to Ben Venue begins. A trip to the craggy summit is hard work but rewarding for the spectacular Trossachs views. The shorter Creag Noran trail offers a great way into this much-loved landscape, without the big climb.
Sir Walter Scott immortalised Ben Venue in his famous poem, The Lady of the Lake. In it he described its craggy slopes as ‘fragments of an earlier world’. To the north of the summit, near the shore of Loch Katrine, is Bealach nam Bò, the Pass of the Cattle. This is where Highland cattle thieves once drove their stolen herds across the hills.
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