Starting at the Cornalees Bridge Visitor Centre, the walk is almost all along good paths across moorland and alongside water - whether reservoir, loch or Greenock Cut, a designated ancient monument built in the 1820s. Gourock and the River Clyde appear after some two miles, but the town is always well below you and the moors are always to your left, haunt of skylark, stonechat, meadow pipit and if you're lucky (I wasn't) hen harrier; and alive in summer with harebells, foxgloves, meadowsweet and hawkbit. During 2006 and 2007, the visitor centre here is open between April and October for light refreshments from 11am to 4pm on weekdays and until 5pm at weekends. These hours also apply to the two other visitor centres, Muirshiel and Castle Semple in this area comprising the Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park (www.clydemuirshiel.co.uk)

Scotland - Renfrewshire - Moors

View a road map to the starting point of this walk.