Tag: camping

August 3, 2020 Alan Brattey 3 comments

On 12th June 2020, the Cairngorm National Park Authority Panning Committee gave approval for the installation of solar powered entry/exit barriers to the Coire Cas car park on Cairn Gorm. Once these have been installed then parking charges for the Cas car park will become mandatory between June and October from 2021 onwards Parkswatch has…

June 16, 2020 Nick Kempe 23 comments

My post last week on the Scottish Government’s guidance on travel for Outdoor Recreation .(see here) was re-posted, with my permission, on the UK Climbing and Hillwalking Forums and shared elsewhere.  It received lots of comments and a fair amount of abuse.  The abuse appears to have been founded on the view that anyone deciding…

March 18, 2020 Nick Kempe 2 comments

With half the country in panic mode, I was pleased I took a break from my book and attended the scheduled Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority Board meeting on Monday  (see here).   What the tattered remnants of the meeting showed is that this is a Public Authority only interested in itself and its…

July 15, 2019 Nick Kempe

I have never met the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park’s Litter Prevention Manager, Nik Turner, but since she was appointed earlier this year she has launched a number of initiatives (see here for example) and appears to have woken the Park out of its slumber. That is welcome.  Many of the problems she is…

April 12, 2019 Nick Kempe 1 comment

Every time I travelled along the A82 last year I spotted people camping in breach of the camping byelaws in the tent free zone the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority has created between Inveruglas and the Falls of Falloch.  The northern part of this was not included originally within the Loch Lomond West…