Upper Cormonachan Heritage Paths Project now Under Construction
We are very pleased to inform you that on Wednesday, 19th October 2022, the commencement of the £1/4 M construction of the Upper Cormonachan Heritage Paths Project has started.
The first BL Groundworks excavator arrived at Upper Cormonachan and it commenced work from the Forest Road down into the woodlands.
The whole area during construction (19th October to January 2023) will be closed to the public on the map for the area shown for safety reasons.
The map shows the closed new path route from the Contemplation Shelter. Temporarily, we have left open access to the Amazonian’s Oak tree and plaque planted for COP26 in November 2021 until the excavator reaches that area.
BBC – The One Show will be filming the start of the path construction, Cormonachan Falls and our Cormonachan Woodlands Rhododendron ponticum clearance programme on Monday 24th October and anyone interested in helping our Volunteers Leader, Frances Walker with cutting back the Rhododendron in the Clach Bhadach area to the north of the woodlands will appear on television. If you can help, please e-mail Frances at Volunteers@cormonachan-woodlands.co.uk.
The BBC programme is to show there are good news follow ups to COP26 when COP27 commences in November. As part of the Amazonian’s visit to see our part of Scotland’s Rainforest, the Scottish Rainforest Alliance are sending their representative, Gordon Gray Stephens, who was present with the Amazonians last year, to be interviewed with Dee Locke as Secretary of Cormonachan Community Woodlands.
The new car park at Cormonachan Falls will most likely be constructed in January 2023 and there will be an official opening of the new 2 km paths connecting Cormonachan Falls, the Medieval Settlement, access to the Forest Road and the extended paths to the Contemplation Shelter to join the existing 2.5 km giving an increased walking area of 4.5 km in the spring of 2023.
If you can help Frances for a short time on Monday, it would be very appreciated.
If you haven’t yet visited Argyll Arts Collective’s ‘Woodlands Art Trail’ in the woodlands, it is open until 30th October and is a FREE event. We do of course hope visitors will contribute to the maintenance of the paths using the Donations Post by the Contemplation Shelter.
Cormonachan Community Woodlands, Loch Goil, Argyll
63.9 ha of Ancient Semi Natural Woodlands and part of Scotland’s Rainforest that received the Highly Commended Award in Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards 2022.