Cave Hill Country Park
Loop Walk · Northern Ireland
300
XP
about 1 h 42 min walking
378 m
234 m
90 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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Some very steep ground — marked on the map.
Climb
250 m
Drop
259 m
Highest
358 m
Lowest
97 m
Walking time
about 1 h 42 min
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Climbs 16% for 420 m early on, comes down 14% for 350 m midway.
Clockwise: Climbs 14% for 350 m midway, comes down 16% for 420 m midway.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (0.6 km at 10%+, 0.6 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.7 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main descent: km 2.4–5.6, from 358 m to 99 m.
How the 6.4 km splits
Flat
0.6 km
Climbing
2.0 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.6 km
Descending
2.5 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.7 km
Link it with other walks
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Starts here too · Shares 0.5 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 0.1, 0.8…2.22 km
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