Walk Details
Hello, I am Charlie Sim, retired engineer living in the Scottish Borders town of Peebles. I love walking and being outdoors – and I’m delighted to be sharing some of my favourite walks here with you.
I started this walk from the green in the centre of Peebles. I headed along the new path alongside the river into Kerfield Park, then proceeded along the path, past the Peebles Hydro to the start of Janet’s Brae towards Glentress – you’ll see plenty of signs pointing you towards Glentress.
As you reach Janet’s Brea, follow the path that brings you out onto the main road. Keep following the path through the tunnel and along the river to the Cardrona Hotel, there is a bridge on the right crossing the river. If you feel you’ve walked enough – it is possible to get a bus from here back to Peebles. If not – keep following the route!
Cross over the bridge following the golf buggy track, crossing over the fairway (please to check for any golfers and give them the right of way).
Go at an angle toward the cottage where you will see a path up to the road where we turn right and then left into Cardrona Forest car park. It may be safer to follow the edge of the golf course, keeping one eye out for stray golf balls heading your way!
In the car park you’ll see various routes around the forest. I used the red (horse riders route) gravel road – follow this all the way up using the route map to make sure you take the right route.
Once at the top, Kalzie Hill or Kirkhope (see the Haystoun walk) for other options to get back to town.
For this walk I reversed the aforementioned walk, so headed towards Birkscairn then down onto Hayston Estate track and back towards the house.
At the main gate, turn down the road heading to Cademuir, halfway down at the burn go through the kissing gate and follow to Jubilee Park, this is The Cut. Crossover into the wood on to Glen Road, Springhill Road, past the tennis club to Kingsmeadow car park.
As always there are longer and shorter route options available (check out my YouTube video for details), also if using the Outdoor Active app, you may want to try different routes to the same place as there are plenty of options available. With all the forestry work and trees being felled, new routes appear and some close and views change, that’s why if we record and document our route it helps others discover our area walks.
Please note if doing this walk in the Spring during lambing and bird nesting season – please stick to the paths and keep your dogs on leads.
Enjoy this one.
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