Finglen - The Green Wagon

A hut for two at the end of a woodland path

The Green Wagon is the second cabin at Finglen, a family run site above Campsie Glen that the owners describe as nine acres of wild meadow, mature trees, woodland, and a river view. It takes two adults. You leave the car at the designated parking space and walk in along about 100 metres of woodland path, with a wheelbarrow provided for your luggage.

Sabrina and Douglas built Captain's Rest first, in 2017, and the Green Wagon followed in 2020. Inside the hut is a king size bed with a wood burning stove next to it. Outside is a covered veranda with a second wood burner, a fire pit, and a double ended bath with hot running water looking over the burn and the meadow.

Off grid here does not mean going without. There is electricity, hot water, a sink, a shower, and the outdoor bath. What is different is the loo, which is an eco composting one rather than a plumbed one, and the kitchen, which has no oven. Blankets, hot water bottles, dressing gowns, towels, and locally made toiletries are laid out, there are board games, books, and wellies to borrow, and the eggs come from the hens on the site.

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The owners put Glasgow at 40 minutes by car, Stirling at 40 minutes as well, and Edinburgh at an hour. More usefully, the X85 bus from Glasgow stops around 300 metres away, so this is an off grid stay you can reach without a car. Our guide to travelling Scotland by public transport covers how far that approach stretches.

For walking, the hosts send guests to the Campsie waterfalls and up Dunglass Hill. For swimming they name the pools at the waterfalls, the Loup of Fintry, Milarrochy Bay on the east shore of Loch Lomond, and the burn on the site, which they say is shallow enough only for a splash. For eating out they point at the Old Mill at Killearn, the Courtyard Cafe at Fintry, and the Kirkhouse Inn at Strathblane.