Come on foot.
Come by bike.
Visit the woodland as it grows. Engines stay out. The path is for walking and cycling, so the forest remains a living place rather than a road through trees.
The Oldwood / public forest / trail plan
A forest
people can walk.
The Oldwood is not meant to be a closed restoration that nobody enters. As native woodland returns to Scotland, trails will be drawn with the planting—so people can visit on foot and by bicycle, and wildlife can come back to a place that still has room for quiet.
Landscape referenceStirling / Touch Hills
Land statusSearch active
Trail statusPlanned with restoration
Open to walk todayNo — 0 km open
01 Why the path is part of the forest
Woodland should be lived in,
not only planted.
A forest that grows and is never entered is only half the work. The Oldwood is being planned as a permanent native woodland people can actually use—without turning it into a park with traffic, or a zoo with scheduled encounters.
Come on foot.
Habitat first.
Not an exhibit.
Wildlife returns when there is cover, food, and enough quiet. People may encounter that life because they are in its place—not because it is displayed for them.
Drawn with the
planting plan.
The trail line is part of restoration, not a later cut. When planting begins, the path is marked with the woodland so it belongs to the forest from the first season.
02 When this happens
Not day one.
From the first planting.
Trails are not the setup phase. After land is secured, the restoration plan already includes the line. As planting starts, that line is marked with the woodland—so the path is not introduced years later through a finished wood.
Draw the line
Trail alignment sits in the restoration plan with species mix, protection, and access—before a spade goes in.
Now / planning overlay onlySurvey the ground
Once a site is secured, the illustrative line becomes a surveyed route with real trailheads and wet-ground rules.
After acquisitionMark with the trees
As native woodland is planted, the path is made with it. The forest and the way through the forest arrive together.
First planting seasonKeep the map honest
This page is the public trail record. It will show planned, marked, and open ground as those states become true.
Live overlay / this map03 Living trail record
The line as it stands.
Select a path or a waypoint. Today every segment is a planning overlay on the Stirling landscape reference. When land is acquired and planting starts, this map is the surface that will show what has actually been marked and opened.
Trail plan / Planning overlay / illustrative
7.1 km planned · 0 km open
Click a path or waypoint · dashed copper is planned · nothing is open yet
04 What we can say
Clear about the path—and about what is still to be earned.
The public-access intent, foot-and-bicycle rule, wildlife-as-habitat principle, and an illustrative trail overlay on the Stirling reference.
A surveyed alignment, real trailheads, permitted routes, and this map updated from planning overlay to site geometry.
Any present-tense claim that a trail is open, or that wildlife can be expected on a given day. Habitat is the aim; sightings are not a product.
05 Bring the first landscape into being
The path waits
on the land.
Founding support funds the search, the plan, and the structure that can hold woodland for good. When that ground exists, this map is where the trail will be seen as it is made.
Support the land fund