I agree with the other reviewers that it is possibly not so easy in places for all bikes, but a gravel/hybrid style bike would be absolutely fine, and the sections which are narrow and/or a bit less smooth (see photos) are overall pretty short and there weren’t too many gates. There’s some short uphill and downhill bits, but not too steep and it was overall pleasant easy walking and would be a lovely running route....

ClaudiaClauws

Review of Slow Ways route Alvtil one (Alva to Tillicoultry). There is then a well-signposted lane (not shown on the Slow Ways mapping) which takes the route through to an un-named road leading up to Woodhill Woods....

wellchoughed

The route begins on Alva main street (West Stirling Street) and follows this street (which becomes the A91) out of the town along a good pavement....

wellchoughed

It appears to be correctly mapped, although I cannot vouch for the link between the access road to the Woodland Park and the minor road round the back of the village (Burnside Farm Road)....

F Berry

dull functional plod down the main road, and then through suburbs of Alloa to pick up the last part of the Devon way ( tarmaced old railway line). A quieter road leading from Alva to Fishcross to pick up the Devon Way at an earlier point, is presumably not recommended as it lacks a footpath although there are quite a lot of pedestrians walking to the residential caravan site on the road....

ewan davidson

For those less interested in industrial estates following the road toward Menstrie another half mile leads to an improved path on the right which after following the road for a while , cuts east along the wooded north boundary of the bottling plant to join the access road from the North. Unfortunately there is no alternative to walking along the A91 to Alva (cafe, pubs, shops)- which does at least have a pavement...

ewan davidson