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View of Castle Campbell – Ben Buck Summit loop from Dollar

View of Castle Campbell – Ben Buck Summit loop from Dollar

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View of Castle Campbell – Ben Buck Summit loop from Dollar

04:57

55.6km

1,380m

Gravel riding

Hard gravel ride. Very good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: March 22, 2026

Tips

Includes a very steep uphill segment

You may need to push your bike.

After 39.4 km for 692 m

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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755 m

Dollar Glen

Forest

1.50 km

View of Castle Campbell

Highlight • Historical Site

The gravel track takes you from Dollar towards Glendevon is fantastic in both directions and overlooks Castle Campbell. The 15th century fortress sits in an enviable, dramatic position above Dollar Glen. The oldest part of the castle is the 15th century tower.

Castle Campbell was home to the powerful Campbell earls of Argyll with significant historical figures visiting like Mary Queen of Scots and John knox. The castle is open to visitors however at time of writing (08/12/22) it is closed due to ongoing masonry work.

Check the website to find out whether it is open for visit: visitscotland.com/info/see-do/castle-campbell-and-gardens-p248551

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5.44 km

Glenquey Reservoir

Highlight • Structure

Good path alongside reservoir suitable for mtb and gravel bike. Great route down into Dollar

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40.0 km

Ben Buck Summit

Highlight • Climb

This hill isn’t in the Scottish Highlands, it isn’t part of the Cairngorms range. It doesn’t measure 1,081m (3457ft) You can’t see Ben Nevis, you might be able to see the southern part of the Cairngorms range on a good day.
It is however a lovely hill in the Ochil Hills, measures 679m and is a subsidiary hill of Ben Cleuch, the highest in the Ochil Hills.

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41.4 km

Ben Ever

Peak

43.8 km

View of Alva from the Hill Path

Highlight • Trail

Not really a gravel bike descent when the grass is damp as there is no traction and very hard to control on steep slope just before the stony hairpins of the Nebbit. Best done on mtb.

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45.2 km

Johnstone Mausoleum, Alva Old Kirkyard

Highlight • Monument

The church of St Serf was rebuilt in 1632 but was abandoned in the 1980s when the congregation merged with that of the Eadie Church. It was demolished after a fire in 1985. Its ‘footprint’ and some inscribed stones remain, along with some interesting early gravestones in the kirkyard. The Erskine family, cousins of the Earls of Mar, had a burial vault beneath the church and there is a plaque in memory of Dr Robert Erskine (1677-1718), who was Chief Physician to Tzar Peter the Great.

The Johnstone Mausoleum was designed by Robert and James Adam for John Johnstone (1734–1795), who bought the Alva estate from James Erskine, Lord Alva, in 1775. Johnstone built the mausoleum c1790, following the death of his wife. Columns of the Greek Doric order flank the entrance, supporting a triangular pediment. It is one of only four Adam mausolea in Scotland. Johnstone, his wife and several of their descendants are buried in the original mausoleum: an eastern extension was added in the 19th century to accommodate additional burials. The mausoleum has been restored and a glass roof has replaced the pitched roof of the 19th century extension.

The Old Kirkyard was restored as part of the Historic Kirkyards Trail project of the Ochils Landscape Partnership programme.

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