Activities

Loch Lomond Sealife Centre
Located in Balloch and open all year
Website: www.visitsealife.com/loch-lomond
Phone: 01389 721500

Loch Lomond Bird of Prey Centre
Located in Balloch and open all year
Website: www.llbopc.co.uk
Phone: 01389 729239

Treezone Ariel Adventure Course
Located in Balloch and open Easter to October (Weekends only in the winter)
Website: www.iye.scot/treezone-loch-lomond
Phone: 01389 496055

Loch Lomond Pony Trekking
Located in Balloch and open all year
Website: www.lomond-pnytreks.co.uk
Phone: 01389 711190 or 07745277320

Cruise Loch Lomond
Located at Tarbet and open all year, they offer a waterbus service and ferries across Loch Lomond.
Trips available include a ½ day explore on Inchcailloch Island or you can get the ferry across to Inversnaid and explore the walks and waterfall.
Website: www.cruiselochlomond.co.uk
Phone: 01301 702356

Sweeney’s Cruise Company
Located at Balloch Pier and open all year, they offer various boat trips on Loch Lomond.
Website: www.sweenyscruiseco.com
Phone: 01389 752376

Scottish Submarine Centre
Located in Helensburgh and open all year
Situated in a converted church this small museum houses only one of two surviving cold war midget submarine X51, also known as HMS Stickleback. Projectors help visualise the interior (as you cannot go inside). Video explains the history of HMS Stickleback including its journey to Helensburgh.
Phone: 01436 006645

Loch Lomond Seaplanes
Located at Cameron Bay (Cameron House Hotel) and open all year
Website: www.lochlomondseaplanes.com
Phone: 01436 675030

Loch Lomond Water Ski Club
Located in Balloch and open May to September
Website: www.lochlomondwaterskuclub.co.uk
Phone: 07778011100

Loch Lomond Leisure (Boats and watersports activities)
Speedboat tours, Island visits, Fishing boat hire,
wakeboarding, watersking, Kayaks, Guided canoe tours,
bicycle hire and paddleboards.
Located in Luss and Rowardennan
Website: www.lochlomond-scotland.com
Phone: 0333 5770715

Golf courses

3 of our favourite courses available within 15 min drive:-
http://www.helensburghgolfclub.co.uk/
http://www.cardross.com/
http://www.dumbartongolfclub.co.uk/

Things to do

Historical sites

Historic Scotland (Historic Environment Scotland) offer ‘Explorer Tickets’ that enable you to visit multiple sites over a number of days to save on entry fees if visiting more than one site and also give you fast track entry for Stirling Castle and Edinburgh Castle. For more information go to: www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/explorer. Some of their historic sites have […]

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Glengoyne Distillery Killearn

Whisky distillery tour

You cannot come to Scotland without discovering the secrets of our ‘water of life’. There are many distilleries near to Crosskeys:- Glengoyne (Killearn), Deanstone (Doune), Auchentoshan (Clydebank/Glasgow), Glenturret (Crieff), Eradour (Pitlochry), Blair Athol (Pitlochry) Aberfeldy and Oban.https://trossachs.co.uk/whisky/

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The Hill House (National Trust property) – Helensburgh

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a revolutionary architect and designer and The Hill House is considered to be his domestic masterpiece. Mackintosh and his wife Margaret created almost everything, from the building itself to the furniture and textiles. More examples of his work can be seen in Glasgow.https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/the-hill-house

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