Walking Route 10 – Crombie Country Park

The main walking route around Crombie Reservoir is the Yellow marker Discovery Trail which starts at the car park hut. Follow the trail from the car park information hut to the bridge over the reservoir spillway and dam.

Continue through the mature pine trees, past the old boat jetty, with excellent views back over the water to the Ranger Centre (former Reservoir Keepers House, a very sought after job in the 1880s).

Continue your journey along the woodland trail to where the path turns left and look for the deer hide for a lookout over the forest, the next point of interest are some fine examples of drystone dyking and beyond find an information board about the beaker people.

Walk across the small bridge passing near Hairy Nichols Cottage, continuing on along the shore of the reservoir to a plantation of spruce and follow the sign to the Birdhide.

Continue past the Ranger Centre and a picnic area set amongst large specimen trees including Wellingtonia and a Monkey puzzle tree. The driveway or bank path now takes you past the connecting aquaduct pipe to Monikie reservoirs, the playpark and some wildlife ponds back to your starting point at the car park.

Points of interest around this route include Monikie Country Park.