Cave Hill Country Park
Loop Walk · Northern Ireland
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about 55 min walking
198 m
143 m
88 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
105 m
Drop
113 m
Highest
190 m
Lowest
90 m
Walking time
about 54 min
Which way round
Clockwise: Climbs 12% for 300 m early on, comes down 17% for 430 m midway.
Anticlockwise: Climbs 17% for 430 m early on, comes down 12% for 300 m near the end.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (0.4 km at 10%+, 0.4 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.3 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main climb: km 0.4–1.7, from 111 m to 161 m.
How the 3.6 km splits
Flat
0.9 km
Climbing
0.6 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.4 km
Descending
1.4 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.3 km
Link it with other walks
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Starts here too · Shares 3.3 km of path · meets at km 0.1, 1.4, 3.62.22 km
Cave Hill Country Park
Shares 3.1 km of path · meets at km 0.7, 1.4, 1.6…11.35 km
Cave Hill Country Park
Starts here too · Shares 0.6 km of path · meets at km 0.7, 3.60.74 km
Cave Hill Country Park
Starts here too · Shares 0.5 km of path · meets at km 0.2, 1.5, 2.1…3.97 km
Cave Hill Country Park
Starts here too · Crosses at km 0.2, 0.3, 1.6…3.78 km