This case study is about the replacement of a stepped and narrow ‘sleeper’ boardwalk to improve user safety and accessibility. This 500m length of the ‘Mires Walk’, near Glen Finglas in the Trossachs, was a mix of narrow stepped and ramped raised timber walkway and stone pitching. Whilst the stone pitching sections were in good condition, the timber walkway was beginning to show its age, had become dangerously slippery and required to be covered with rabbit netting as an anti-slip measure.
