{"id":159,"date":"2007-09-09T10:18:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T09:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/blog\/public-rights-of-way-in-north-lanarkshire\/159"},"modified":"2024-11-12T19:37:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:37:47","slug":"public-rights-of-way-in-north-lanarkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/public-rights-of-way-in-north-lanarkshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Rights of Way in North Lanarkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

While ScotWays<\/a> do a reasonable job of publicising public rights of the way going through Scottish hill country, their lowland cousins seem to fall into some sort of black hole. It often feels as if you stumble upon them entirely through serendipity, which can make a day hike more interesting at the expense of predictability. There are places where you should not take risks like that.<\/p>\n

The fact that OS maps don't depict Scottish rights of way like their English and Welsh counterparts is no help either. That makes route planning and navigation all the more challenging, especially when a map does not reveal what may be possible in a more accessible manner. Guidebooks and magazines then become invaluable for building up a library of ideas.<\/p>\n

The only saving grace is the Scottish Right to Roam legislation that makes rights of way less crucial than they are in many parts of England and Wales, where someone is more likely to be put out by anyone rambling in the wrong place. Scots tend to be more tolerant anyway, which helps. Navigation in a right to roam situation then becomes more free-form, though there is need for added care given the scale of the Highlands and the Southern Uplands.<\/p>\n

Thus, it was with some interest that I stumbled on the Public Access<\/a> section of North Lanarkshire Council's website. There are loads here of interest, and the maps of the proposed core path network are especially useful, especially for the Kilsyth hills and the Kelvin Valley, and the Campsie Fells are not far away either.<\/p>\n

The effort makes me wonder if other Scottish councils are planning to take a similar approach; it would be great if they did. Having a central place at national level, where you can survey what is there, would be even better again. If the information finally gets onto OS maps, that would be icing on the proverbial cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While ScotWays do a reasonable job of publicising public rights of the way going through Scottish hill country, their lowland cousins seem to fall into some sort of black hole. It often feels as if you stumble upon them entirely through serendipity, which can make a day hike more interesting at the expense of predictability. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,29,32],"tags":[948,4857,4858,1230,4177,739,1031,744,926,1235,1232,1234,4856,522,427,1233,1231,356,4175,267,251,763,512,736],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland","category-trip-ideas","category-walking","tag-campsie","tag-campsie-fells","tag-fell","tag-freedom-to-roam","tag-here-technologies","tag-here-wego","tag-hiking","tag-human-activities","tag-human-behavior","tag-humans","tag-kilsyth","tag-lanarkshire","tag-north-lanarkshire","tag-ordnance-survey","tag-outdoor-recreation","tag-right-of-way","tag-scottish-rights-of-way-and-access-society","tag-southern-uplands","tag-symbian-software","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales","tag-walking","tag-walking-in-the-united-kingdom","tag-web-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}