Threave Castle

Amazing castle. With boat trip includes! (It's on an island!!)
Cant express how much fun visiting was. Nice walk to it. Boat cross and we got to see lots of wildlife. Castle was lovely to explore. Staff were ace. Only £4.50 per person.

Threave Castle was a formidable fortress in medieval times. Now it is a beautiful ruin. It's the only castle I know of where you need to get to on a boat. All you need to do is ring the bell and the ferryman will come and ferry over to the island. A visit to this Romantic is highly recommended.

Threave Castle is situated on a small island with access via a very short boat ride following a 10 minute walk from the car park. The castle itself consists of a single tower structure with excellent views of the surrounding countryside. If as we were you might be lucky to see wild Otter and Red Kites also.

This is a fantastic castle that sits on its own island there is a free car park that leads onto the walk to the castle which is 0.5 miles away the footpath is very well maintained and could be accessed via a good mobility wheel chair.There are various hides for bird watching mainly the ospreys that nest nearby. The castle itself is closed due to the ongoing HSE reviews that seem to have closed almost all historic Scotland sites which I don't agree with as no work seems to be going on at any of them that I have seen but the views are worth while as are the ospreys however I didn't see them on the day we visited there is a visitor center at the car park.

Lovely views and a nice area to walk around, the castle is closed currently with lots of work being carried out around the site, wod lkve to go back when it is open again.

The Osprey viewing platform gave a good but distant view of the nest, and we managed to get a glimpse of one of the birds as it returned after feeding.

Acces to the castle was not available at the time we visited. We walked down to the pier to get photos....saw deer and buzzards. Well kept walkway.

Ospreys on the best visible through volunteers telescope, a wonderful walk with wildlife all round. A little disappointed we couldn't visit the castle due to boat being off but a good reason to return another time.

Lived in this area for many years and once visited the castle when the boat to cross over the river to the castle was open but we we hadn't realised there is a nice walk around the bank of the river with hides along the way and a viewing point for the Ospreys. It's worth a vist but don't go as you will spoil the peace and quiet for us 😁.