[Closed] Peebles to Cardrona - Gypsy Glen

Ridden it from where it meets the A72, no idea about the bit between that and Peebles, it's only a couple of miles tho.

I dunno, but a more fun option is to climb up janet's brae to get into GT, follow the red or black round to deliverance, go down that and out the bottom of the valley past the farm, then back to cardrona.

Or the B road is ok if you want to cut it short.

Yes it is, the bit along the Tweed at the Peebles end is nice.You can carry on into Cardrona, or cut right and through the golf course to the entrance to the Forest

Is that on the North side of the river ? Past the rugby club ? I think that might be private land. I have managed to negotiate the track on the south side of the river, but again the farmer has made it v difficult, and it really wasn't worth it, there is quite a nice back road.

You are better getting on the cycle path at the back entrance to the Hydro, under the tunnel, behind the recycling centre, which meets the track through the golf course and pops you out at Cardrona Station. Nobody minds you riding there, it is better to take that track rather than wander through farmer's fields and generally give us all a bad name. P.S Are you local ??

(it's the bit between the Rugby Club and the recycling that is iffy in terms of access, there are some grumpy landowners around that way)

The bit behind the rugby club looks like a footpath I've met several people walking along it, and there are steps leading from the field at the eastern end up to the road.

I've ridden that section after the rugby ground. I didn't have any problems with access but it was very wet and there's a long, steep set of stairs you need to climb to get to the A72.

It's marked on the 1:25,000 as a path

It's the bit where the river goes quite close to the road that is a problem. The landowner has put a couple of gates across the path and last time I was there a rude sign, as it goes through their back garden. By the letter of the law, yes you can access, but it really isn't worth it. You are looking at schlepping your bike up the steps and onto the A72, across the road and into the tunnel.

I would follow the river from the bridge, go along the back of the rugby club pitches, cross the road at the 30 signs and get on the path at the horsey place, then the tunnel as described above.

The map does show a path continuing along the river at that point as you say "through their garden" I wonder which came first the path or their garden? but there is the steps up to the A72. Personally I've never had a problem there but it's good to hear about potential conflicts.

I dunno, but a more fun option is to climb up janet's brae to get into GT, follow the red or black round to deliverance, go down that and out the bottom of the valley past the farm, then back to cardrona.

Or the B road is ok if you want to cut it short.

Or, as said up janets brae into GT down the blue cross the road at the GT hotel through golf course to Cardrona.

As done last week in the snow.
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Thanks for the replies.....

Hels, yep I am local as in Jedburgh.

My original plan was to use the B road on the south of the river, but I thought if that path was any good it would at least keep it off road. Grumpy landowners aside, sounds like it's not worth the effort.

I dunno, but a more fun option is to climb up janet's brae to get into GT, follow the red or black round to deliverance, go down that and out the bottom of the valley past the farm, then back to cardrona.

I do have a route that goes up that way but makes the whole ride 50Km which was a bit further than we wanted to go.

The route I have is 21Km, but if there is a way into GT and out to Cardrona that takes the whole ride to 30Km max I'd be interested in that.

Ignore my last, that endomondo route looks to be 27Km (17 miles) which would do...

There seems to be a bit of an informal arrangement locally that we leave the river side paths to the old people, families and dog walkers. Which is a fair one really, as we have the Mother Ship of trails that is Glentress right there... and Inners in spitting distance. I certainly have never seen a biker along the river going the other way, and I run along there regularly.

Just a wee update, we rode the gypsy glen today with a wee bit of glentress; basically the endomondo route posted above and we started in cardrona. I have to say it was fantastic, even with the howling wind as we rounded the southerly end of the forest.

If you haven't done it, then do it 🙂