Lost in the woods
You’ll need your navigation device for this one…
To download this route go to cyclist.co.uk/133northernireland or scan the QR code. The route begins at the Corralea Activity Centre. Turn right out of the park onto Lattone Road then take the next left, up Aghavass Road, left again onto Ballintempo Road, then first right to Ballintempo Forest. From here you’ll really need a GPX route as little is signed and a lot of the forest will look very similar to fresh eyes. However, in general head north towards Lower Lough Erne, via Big Dog Forest and Conagher Forest (for which there are signs), before turning south through Conagher then Big Dog, occasionally retracing a track or two that you’ve already been down. Eventually exit the forest back onto Lattone Road and onwards to the right turn for Corralea.
Length 88km
Elevation 1,545m
Deeper into the forest the trees start to loom in regimental lines, closing in like surreptitious soldiers
Belcoo sits plumb on the border of Northern Ireland and Ireland. Here the A4 from Enniskillen morphs seamlessly into the N16 to Sligo as the font changes from to , and the numbers in the red circles go from denoting miles per hour to kilometres per hour. The transition is both everything and nothing, perfectly missable, a wonderful reminder of how countries can live side by side in
