Description
Callander Mountain Bike Trails
Callander Mountain Bike Trails covers Coilhallan Wood, an 83-hectare Forestry and Land Scotland woodland on the edge of Callander within Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. There is no purpose-built or waymarked trail network here: riders use an informal web of forestry tracks and natural singletrack through the wood, so download a route or use GPS navigation before you set off. A long-running community proposal for a graded blue and red trail loop, a sensory trail and a skills area has not progressed beyond a 2017 feasibility study, and the local development trust withdrew from its plan to take over the woodland in 2020. It's about nine miles from Rabbit Hill Bike Park, Aberfoyle and next door to the Trossachs MTB region.
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The Trails
Coilhallan Wood has an existing network of forestry tracks that are well used by walkers and, informally, by mountain bikers, but nothing has been purpose-built or waymarked for riding. There are no graded routes, signage or trail features, so treat this as natural, unsanctioned terrain and expect to share tracks with walkers and dog walkers.
A formal MTB trail project has been proposed for the site since at least 2017. The plan, developed by the Callander MTB Trails Group with Callander Community Development Trust, envisaged a blue-graded main loop with optional technical lines, a red-graded option, a 650m sensory trail, and a dedicated skills loop, backed by Β£100,000 of Active Places Fund money and a completed feasibility study. Forestry and Land Scotland approved a community asset transfer of the wood to the trust in April 2020, but the trust withdrew from the purchase later that year after failing to secure Scottish Land Fund financing, and has since folded Coilhallan into a broader, non-cycling-specific community woodland project. There is no confirmed timeline for the trails to be built, so treat this listing as a proposed rather than an existing trail centre.
Local Organisation
The Callander MTB Trails Group is the volunteer group behind the original proposal; its dedicated project website is no longer online, so this Facebook page is the only channel we could confirm. Callander Community Development Trust now leads on Coilhallan Wood's wider management.
Getting Here
Coilhallan Wood, Invertrossachs Road, Callander, FK17 8HW. The main car park sits on Invertrossachs Road (part of NCN Route 7), just before Wheels Cycling Centre when approaching from Callander town centre, about 1.5km southwest of town.
A second, pedestrian entrance is available from the A81 side of the wood.
Callander is served by regular bus routes from Stirling; there is no rail station in the town.
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