Forest bathing in East Dunbartonshire

East Dunbartonshire is where Glasgow's suburbs meet the Campsie Fells, and its best woodland is where the two touch. Mugdock Country Park, north of Milngavie, has old oak woodland round the castle ruins, a loch and a visitor centre, and the West Highland Way sets off through it. Up at Lennoxtown, Lennox Forest is a Forestry and Land Scotland conifer plantation on the Campsie slopes with wide tracks and views back over the city. Nearer home there are small woods along the Allander Water and around Kilmardinny Loch in Bearsden, and the Forth and Clyde Canal towpath at Kirkintilloch is lined with trees.

You don't need wild country for this. A session is two to three hours in a small group, a short slow walk and long stops to listen and look, and Mugdock on a weekday morning is quiet enough for it. Winter dates often favour the shelter of the oaks. Each guide's profile gives dates, venues and prices.

Mugdock is the place to start: several car parks, a visitor centre with a cafe and toilets, and a walk of about half an hour from Milngavie railway station along the West Highland Way.