Scottish village aims to become ‘mecca for UK gravel cycling’

'Gravelfoyle' project opens UK’s first waymarked trails to encourage riders to Aberfoyle

GravelFoyle
(Image credit: Stu Thomson)

Aberfoyle, a small village north of Glasgow in Scotland, is aiming to become a hot destination for gravel cycling in the United Kingdom. 

As part of a joint project between ‘Gravelfoyle’ and ‘Bike Trossachs’, a new tourism brand for the area, three brand new waymarked gravel routes opened around the village today which. it's hoped, will mean the ‘Gravelfoyle’ project develops into a  ‘mecca’ for gravel cyclists in the United Kingdom. 

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.