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the Trossachs

Duke's Pass

A821

  • Water
  • Forest
Plan a drive around it
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4 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the A821 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
7.4 km
How curvy
Relentlessly twisty
36% curviness — Among the most tightly curved roads in the database.
Curvy metres
2,695
How these scores are measured

Curvy metres is curviness multiplied by length: how much genuine curve this road actually gives you, rather than how tight its tightest corner is. It is the number that separates a mountain pass from a housing estate.

Speed limits along it

What is on the poles along this stretch, by share of its length.

  • national limit (60)100%

Runs past

  • Aberfoyle·village·60 m
  • Milton·hamlet·70 m
  • Brig o' Turk·hamlet·1.6 km

Distances are approximate: the closest this stretch is known to come.

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:The Station

    Café · 60 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • hours listed
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 2 on the map:The Faerie Tree

    Restaurant · 60 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • outdoor seating
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 3 on the map:The Forth Inn

    Pub · 50 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • phone
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 4 on the map:Pit:stop

    Café · 70 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 5 on the map:Aberfoyle Bike Hire

    Café · 120 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 6 on the map:Liz MacGregors

    Restaurant · 10 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    Open in Google Maps ↗

The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

No Twistly drives use the A821 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the A821

Photographs taken within about a kilometre of this stretch, from Wikimedia Commons. They are near the road — we have no evidence any of them shows it.