Access to the Trail for wheelchair users The Newtonmore Community Woodland & Development Trust, has set up 450 yards of flat, wide paths through an area of newly planted trees with spectacular views of the Cairngorms and Monadhliath and Creag Dhubh. This area, known as the Jack Richmond Memorial Woodland Park, can be found beside the Railway Station. It has half a dozen picnic tables designed for use by people in wheelchairs. The Wildcat Trail was established before the new access policy was instituted ed as part of the Land Reform Act (Scotland) 2003. It therefore does not conform to the requirement to be accessible to wheelchair users and walkers with other disabilities. There are many gates, stiles and kissing gates and sections of the path are narrow and have steep drops to one side. There are two sections of the Trail which can be walked by people with problems of balance or sight, as long as they are accompanied and can negotiate gates and stiles, but none of the path , apart from the Jack Richmond Memorial Woodland Park, is accessible to wheelchairs: 1. There-and-back walk along the banks of the Spey. (narrow path, footbridge, stepping stones) Starting north from the centre of the village, join the Trail at the road which turns off to the right between the two last houses in the village (Davaar and Tarimara). There is a small landscaped area on the corner with a stone plinth bearing a map of the Wildcat Trail. Follow the road down past the gates to the Highland Folk Museum * and the gates to the water treatment works. Follow the track over the railway bridge (please close the gate) and then bear left along the edge of the fence and across the footbridge onto the banks of the Spey. It is then possible to walk to the far end of the golf course, but two stiles are encountered here. *(please note there is no access to the Folk Museum via these gates) 2. Round-trip walk incorporating part of the path along the Calder (kissing gates and cattle grids, short steep sections, steep fall to one side along the Calder) Starting from the centre of the village, turn up Glen Road (beside the Capercaille Restaurant) and follow it until you reach a path to the left where the River Calder makes a sharp curve to your left. There are two signs here, one with the Wildcat Trail logo, and one saying Calder path/ Newtonmore. This route leads back down to the Laggan Road through several kissing gates and a steep path along the gorge above the river.

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