Parking
Use the car park beside Grantown-on-Spey's outdoor curling pond on Forest Road, the published starting access.
Overview
About All Abilities Trail, Anagach Woods
Why go
- Flat, firm paths with no gates or steps.
Map & elevation
The route
Loading the Cairngorms map
Full mapElevation207–221 m
Plan your hike
Before you go
Parking
Safety
3 active Cairngorms alerts
- CautionStorm Boelo high windsStorm Boelo will bring extremely windy weather to the Cairngorms; take extra care and limit time outdoors. - The Park Authority expects the very windy weather to last until Monday 26 October.Official details
- ClosureGlenmore wildfire closures and dangerous treesWildfire damage has closed Allt Mor car park and the path to Sugarbowl/Utsi’s Bridge; keep out of the closed area.Official details
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Cairngorms Tour Guide
Your drive to All Abilities Trail, Anagach Woods, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Cairngorms National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
See the Cairngorms audio tourRecorded for this trailhead
Anagach Woods' All Abilities Trail0:00 / 0:28
“You're approaching Anagach Woods, where the All Abilities Trail offers a gentle way into the pinewoods.”
Plays as you drive up to this trailhead in the Parkwolf Cairngorms Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Grantown Square and Museum
- Two Sides of a River Bend
- A Twelve O’Clock Caber
- When the Main Line Crossed Dava
- 298 audio storiesacross Cairngorms’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Red Deer, Reindeer, Osprey, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 260 trails, 90 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Trail guide
Hiking All Abilities Trail, Anagach Woods
The short accessible circuitAll Abilities Trail is a one-mile loop through Anagach Woods, starting from the car park beside…
All Abilities Trail is a one-mile loop through Anagach Woods, starting from the car park beside Grantown-on-Spey's outdoor curling pond on Forest Road. It is an easy, low-level walk through old Caledonian pinewoods. The route is described as suitable for all abilities, with flat, smooth, firm paths and no gates or steps. Allow about 45 minutes.
Follow the right loopAnagach also has separate green, blue and red trails, which are longer walks through the same…
Anagach also has separate green, blue and red trails, which are longer walks through the same woodland network. Keep to the dedicated All Abilities line on your map for this short circuit. It is a simple way to spend part of an hour among the pines without committing to the longer circuits in the same network.
Protect the capercaillieThe community-owned woods are cared for by the Anagach Woods Trust and local estates.
The community-owned woods are cared for by the Anagach Woods Trust and local estates. They are important habitat for the rare and endangered capercaillie. From April to mid-August, keep dogs on a short lead and stay on the paths to help protect the birds.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Cairngorms
159 sightingsRed DeerMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
63 sightingsReindeerMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
102 sightingsOspreyMost seen around 5 PMSighting map
37 sightingsBlack GrouseMost seen around 4 AMSighting map
72 sightingsRed GrouseMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
82 sightingsPine MartenMost seen around 9 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Cairngorms. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
