Pentland Reservoirs MTB

A mountain-bike track. Starts and ends near Currie (Alba / Scotland).

Length: 17.6 km (10.9 mi)
Climb: about 230 m (750 ft)
From the centre of Edinburgh: 8.0 km (5.0 mi)

What the track is like

Surface: gravel for 5.3 km (3.3 mi), compacted gravel for 2.7 km (1.7 mi) and asphalt for 1.6 km (1.0 mi). On forest and farm tracks for 6.4 km (4.0 mi), paths for 6.1 km (3.8 mi) and service roads for 2.2 km (1.4 mi). Singletrack difficulty: S2 on 508 m (1667 ft) (OpenStreetMap mtb:scale).

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Height along the way

Lowest point about 130 m (430 ft), highest about 280 m (920 ft); about 230 m (750 ft) of climb ridden the harder way, about 80 m (260 ft) the other way. Estimated from the Copernicus elevation model along the line, not measured on the ground.

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Where this track comes from

It is mapped in OpenStreetMap and found through Waymarked Trails. Place names from OpenStreetMap through Nominatim. Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-90 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.