Canmore reference number - 20538
Parking Spot - What3Words ///warnings.prepare.tonal or digital coordinates 57.544564 -2.045763
Path from the track through woods - What3Words ///annual.gadgets.tamed or digital coordinates 57.536694 -2.065487
Site location - What3Words ///dumps.ridge.triangles or digital coordinates 57.537745 -2.066792
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 2.3Km
Terrain - Forest Track then path through woods - maybe some fallen trees.
Date first visited site 23rd January 2022
A tricky site to find as the Pine woodland is dense, you have to be within a few meters to even see the clearing where the stones are located and secondly there is a good two kilometre walk as there are no car parks close to the circle.
There is a car park at White Cow Woods but it requires walking along a public road for a good kilometre, my preference is to avoid walking along the public road and park at the Drinnie's Wood Car Park and walk along forest track.
The last hundred meters to the circle does require you to know where to leave the track and head into the woods, unfortunately there are two paths within a few meters of each other so using the location give above "Path from the Track .. ", walk up the wide straight path up to where there is a branch off to the left at :- What3Words ///expensive.sounds.comment or digital coordinates 57.537395 -2.065587
and then on to the stones.
Because of the distance to walk and the difficulty in finding the circle through the forest, Loudon Wood Recumbent Stone Circle is one of the most elusive sites.
