Around Lochore Meadows Country Park
From the visitor centre car park, walk towards the loch and bear left in the direction of the green-painted Outdoor Education Centre (at weekends you can go canoeing, kayaking or sailing on the loch from here). Then follow the sign to join the footpath that runs round the loch. When you get to the footbridge on your right, you can detour for a short distance to your left to look at the neglected ruins of Lochore Castle. Otherwise, cross over and go through a patch of woodland. When you reach a wider track, with a modern housing development dead ahead, turn right and go through a kissing gate. You're now walking on a broad cinder track, and as you walk you'll pass gorse bushes and reed beds – and in summer you may spot dainty harebells. Also known as Scottish bluebells, they like to grow on poor soils. The path runs below the cliffs and crags of former quarries, which now have a wild and natural appearance.
Go through a gate, then on through a copse to walk near an island in the lake. The islands are named Moss, Tod and Whaup, taken from old local dialect words for wetlands, fox and curlew respectively. Pass through a series of gates, between fields of grazing cattle and on to a firm track that leads through the woods.
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