Some of the most popular walks for dogs include Castle Fraser (Image: NC)
Our research suggests Culzean Castle in Ayrshire and Queen Elizabeth Forest Park in Stirlingshire are among highlights for dog lovers. The bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, the woods around Dunkeld in Perthshire and the forests and beaches of Fife are also popular. We contacted five experts who offer dog walking routes on their websites to ask which ones had the most hits from the public.
The top 10 from Walkiees – a UK-wide resource offering hundreds of walks and based in the New Forest, Hampshire – features six Fife walks.
Heatherhall Wood near Ladybank came out on top with more than 21,000 page views since it was added four years ago. The website also has walks in Queen Elizabeth Forest near Aberfoyle – Loch Ard and David Marshall Lodge – with more than 22,000 hits combined.
This beautiful woodland in the Trossachs – founded to mark the Coronation in 1953 – also features highly on the most popular walks on Forestry and Land Scotland’s web- site. However, the quango said its most popular walking route was at Sallochy by Loch Lomond.
With 63,733 page views, it finished just ahead of Glentress in Peeblesshire and Kirroughtree in Wigtownshire (both popular with mountain bikers and dog walkers).
However, even that
