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Ards Forest Park - Heritage trail

Loop Walk · Donegal

200

XP

about 1 h 15 min walking

Moderate
5.2 km
Loop
2 hours
Dogs welcome
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138 m

71 m

5 m

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Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

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Hilly walk

1 steep stretch — marked on the map.

Climb

112 m

Drop

113 m

Highest

92 m

Lowest

20 m

Which way round

Anticlockwise: Easy first 1.4 km, no steep climbing, comes down 15% for 330 m near the end.

Clockwise: Climbs 15% for 330 m early on, no steep descents.

Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (0.3 km at 10%+) and come down no steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.

Main climb: km 0.5–1.3, from 25 m to 92 m.

How the 5.3 km splits

Flat

1.5 km

Climbing

1.5 km

Steep climbing (10–15%)

0.3 km

Descending

2.1 km

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