Scotland’s John Muir Way Opens April 2014, Macs Adventure Launches a Self Guided Walking Tour
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Macs Adventure introduces new 11-night tour.
The life and legacy of John Muir, the Scots-born naturalist and founder of America’s National Parks, is being celebrated this month with the opening of a new national coast-to-coast pathway across the heart of Scotland.
The new John Muir Way walking trail, opening on 21st April alongside the John Muir Festival commemorating the centenary of his death, stretches 134 miles from Helensburgh in the West to Dunbar in the East.
From the Banks of Loch Lomond to Edinburgh, the tour takes walkers through mountains, lochs, canals and coastal scenery. The coast-to-coast route visits a wide variety of natural and man-made attractions providing an fascinating insight into the past and present of John Muir’s country of birth; the Falkirk Wheel (an impressive feat of engineering) and the ‘Kelpies’ - gigantic silver sculptures of Clydesdale horses (unveiled to coincide with the John Muir Festival in April 2014), wildlife-rich Musselburgh beaches, Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, and of course the Birthplace Museum of John Muir himself in Dunbar.
The new trail can be booked through Macs Adventure, which has just launched an 11-night tour of the John Muir Way available to book starting any day from 1st May until the end of September.
Neil Lapping, chief adventure officer at Macs Adventure, said: “We predict the John Muir Way will become one of Scotland’s most visited long distance trails. Described by the New York Times as, ‘one of the greatest thinkers of America’, John Muir’s activism was pivotal in preserving some of North America’s great parks—Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. We are in turn proud to support the work of the John Muir Trust—a not-for profit charity that owns and cares for some of the finest wild areas in the UK.”
Prices start from £795 GPB per person which includes 11 nights in hand-picked accommodation in high quality B&Bs, country inns and guesthouses with breakfast included, route notes and maps, luggage transfers from hotel to hotel each day, a pre-departure information pack and 24-7 emergency support.
Details of the John Muir Way self-guided walking tour: http://www.macsadventure.com/holiday-1620/the-john-muir-way