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Parking is at the two pull-offs just opposite the public toilets at the west end of St Fillans. This is just below St Fillans’ small hydroelectric power plant, where its tailrace flows out into Loch Earn. The walk traces the water supply up into Glen Tarken overhead. With oakwoods at start and end, and grassy trackways through the moorland above, it’s a route that doesn’t go anywhere in particular but has a pleasant time along the way.

Between the two pull-offs, start across A85 up steps onto a private road at the small St Fillans Power Station (this road starts alongside the Four Seasons Hotel).

Turn left for 150 metres, then back right at a waymark post up a track. It crosses over a disused railway, then zigs back left and slants up steeply through woods. Ignore two side-tracks on the right, before the gate at the top of the trees. Roughly 100 metres beyond the gate onto open hill, the OS Explorer map marks a cup-marked rock to left of the track, but the marks aren’t very visible.

Loch Earn from Glen Tarken foot