Parking
The route starts at Newtonmore Bowling Club. The route sources do not confirm visitor parking at the club.
Overview
About Milk Cow Path
Why go
- Cairngorm views on a quick village walk
- Model wildcat figures along the route
Heads up
- Mostly road, with uneven or muddy earth sections
Milk Cow Path is a roughly 0.6-mile, one-way village walk from Newtonmore Bowling Club to Station Road, following a quiet back road beside the golf course. Allow about 15 minutes. Most of the route is road, with narrow earth sections that can be uneven or muddy and a few short moderate slopes. It is a quick change of pace in the village, not a hill walk.
Parkwolf’s verdictIs this the short walk for you?Map & elevation
The route
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Full mapElevation242–248 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 Milk Cow Path, 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
Newtonmore’s Wildcat Hunt0:00 / 0:31
“Newtonmore's Wildcat Centre is ahead, the starting point for a village treasure hunt.”
Plays as you drive up to this trailhead in the Parkwolf Cairngorms Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Clan Macpherson Museum
- Highland Folk Museum
- The Raven’s Rolling Flight
- The Poet Behind Ossian
- 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 Milk Cow Path
The small detailsThe Cairngorm views come along the way.
The Cairngorm views come along the way. Look out for model wildcat figures along the route; they are a playful village feature, not a promise of seeing wildcats.
Make it a loopAt Station Road, you can continue to Jack Richmond Memorial Park.
At Station Road, you can continue to Jack Richmond Memorial Park. For a loop back to the start, return on Main Street; that circuit's distance is not stated. The 0.6 miles above is the one-way Milk Cow Path. Keep to the path across the golf course and keep dogs on a short lead.
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.
