[Closed] What to do in Aviemore?

Nah. It's all rubbish. Take your knitting needles..

i'm taking the wife.....

^ druidh is right, no riding at all, none around the forest sweet singletrack, none up on epic passes and certainly no tracks heading onto the high plateau with rocky fast descents; and if it rains nowt to do at all, no rivers, climbing walls etc; and if it snows next week, forget it.

Does the wife bike? We go there every year with kids - tons of trails from easy stuff for kids to big mountain routes. Try Bothy Bikes - always helpful.

Loads of wonderful tracks through Rothiemurchus forest. Head for the lodge and then SE to the Lairig Ghru for one if the best tracks in the UK.

Google Burma Road.

Head into Bothy Bikes for lots of advice and some nice trail maps.

When are you going?

agreed, it's all pretty rubbish. If you head to bothy bikes the staff are very unfriendly and will not point you in the direction of any superb riding whatsoever. The beer from the cairngorm brewery is terrible and the food in the Ord Ban at Inverdruie is entirely unremarkable 😉

And the coffee shops are poor, no GoApe, no Highland Life Museum, no swimming pools, no romantic walks around Loch an Eileen, no reindeer, no wildlife watching etc etc awful place... 😉

and whatever you do don't sample the cakes fresh cream cakes at the Inshriach nursery; they're awful... 😯

wife doesn't bike-going with another couple so just the two of us who need to escape from the wives (who want us to go pony trecking with them)

Best pony trekking is at Newtonmore, then Alvie. The Rothiemurchus one ain't so good.

ok thanks i'll pass the pony info on to the Mr's.

[url= http://www.mountaincafe-aviemore.co.uk/ ]Mountain Cafe[/url]

Coffee/Breakfast in Mountain Cafe is a MUST

we're here-checked out Bothy bikes and got a trail map, had a gentle trundle thru Aviemore itself this morning. Getting our bearings but as everyone says-its looking pretty rubbish so far.......

Was in cafe mambo last week - usually go there for guaranteed good food at reasonable prices ( unlike mountain cafe who do great food but at a price )

I was bloody awful ! Worth paying the extra for mountain cafe 🙂

I absolutely hate Avimore, every time I go there, apart from that lovely concrete shopping centre, I'm appalled it didn't get a design award (is it still there?).

Be prepared to que to get into the mountain cafe, and be glad that you did.

Inshriach nursery cafe is unforgetable - although theres a day mid week, wednesdays I think, when its not open so its worth checking. Its a fair distance out of Aviemore and if you and your otherhalves are off doing different things it makes a good rendezvous in the middle of the day.

The cafe above Active Sports is worth checking out and the food at The Old Bridge Inn is superb (but not cheap)

think we're gonna have a trundle to An Sluggan and check that out first.

I'll be there tonight too, staying till Friday. Maybe see you on the trails.

nice descent down from An Sluggan- twisty rooty down over a fireroad to bike route #2 at the bottom., the rest of the small top sections of An Sluggan were a bit disappointing though.
I guess im spoilt having LeeQuarry 2mins from my house.

If you want to visit a tail centre - Laggan's only about half an hour away. Alternatively, Burma Road is a nice few hours in the countryside 🙂

But as others say, it's a horrible place.. no fun to be had there!

i guess i'm spoilt having lee quarry near

Aviemore has these weird things called trees, you'll love them after lee quarry 😉

Badaguish.....

You wont find cakes this tasty at the Inschriach Nursery. Possibly

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....Badaguish.....

...Will you do the fandango?

I'm just back from 2 weeks in Aviemore and we go there once or twice a year. We do everything from bike riding (road and MTB) and hill-walking to sitting in cafés or pootling around lochs.

It's awesome. The sheer mileage of gorgeous singletrack is amazing, especially when you literally cycle from your tent in Rothiemurchus for hours and hours. I'm not an expert on the harder stuff but there are a loads of good routes in Badaguish and Inshriach Forest.

I concur that Mountain Café, Active Café and Inshriach Nurseries are great. For bigger food (especially steaks) The Skiing Doo is great too. My favourite bar is Glenmore Lodge because of the Cairngorm Brewery beer and because it's full of people doing active things not just out to get pissed, but it's not quite so convenient to get to.

For a fiver you can use the pool and sauna at the Coylumbridge Hilton too. I've turned up at reception covered head to toe in mud and they were fine about it.

Get a shot on the funicular railway and theres snow dog kennels as well if ya fancy that. Also a wateersports centre at loch morlich which will be nice in october.

Aviemore has these weird things called trees, you'll love them after lee quarry

😀 loving trees yesterday-they need to start planting them wider though to cope with new school wide bars!

Going to Laggan today. woo hoo