9.2 miles 3h 37min ascent 344m
The Silver Jubilee Road, which from its name must date back to 1977, was to be a multi-use (vehicles, horses, legs) trail in the beautiful Tweedsmuir hills. There were to be seven stops: Covenanter’s View; Auchenmode Burn; Roebuck’s Leap; Laird’s Cleuch Rigg; Blackcock Knowe; Overmenzion Way; and Fruid Outlook. Each presumably would have had a small car-park, information board and picnic table.
Reality is a little different. The route is now a forestry track, closed to ‘unauthorised vehicles’. Its surface is rather muddy in the south-eastern section but looks to have been re-surfaced elsewhere, and quite recently. A logging lorry passed us as we set off on our walk.
Unfortunately we had drizzle all day so the views were somewhat limited.
The original plan for the Tweedsmuir Silver Jubilee Road.
