The Lodge Café is open 5 days a week and currently closed every Tuesday & Wednesday. The Lodge Forest Visitor Centre is open seven days a week, 10am to 4pm (10am to 3pm January). We have three courses to choose from that vary in length and navigational difficulty - great for families with young children, or anyone seeking something more challenging than a sign-posted route.
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If you want to test your navigation skills and see some bits of the forest most visitors don't then why not pick up a free orienteering map from reception. If you want a bird’s eye view of the forest or to leap through the canopy like a red squirrel, then this is the place to be. The Lodge is also home to the award winning Go Ape. Ospreys can still be seen regularly in our region, from Balmaha to Inversnaid along Loch Lomond’s eastern shore and at Loch Achray and the Lake of Menteith, close to Aberfoyle. The reason they have not recently been using our camera nest is probably because of the condition of the tree and does not indicate any concern for the numbers of ospreys. Our nest has also sadly sat empty for the last 4 seasons, despite there being around 30 nesting pairs in the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park. Unfortunately, this tree has naturally degraded over the years and is no longer safe for staff to climb for regular maintenance of the camera. This camera was installed many years ago near a nest in a standing dead tree. We have had to make the difficult decision to remove our long standing osprey nest camera. The wildlife room has a live camera showing our garden bird feeders and recorded footage of local birds of prey. This is a great place to watch wildlife – there’s the easy-to-reach Red Squirrel Hide as well as live video feeds of our squirrels in the wildlife room.
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