点评:Despite the low score review, this forest walk is beautiful with some excellent points of interest including the shipwreck, the stunning mausoleum, the ice house, the castle (meh!) and more.
However the low score is directly due to the absolutely abysmal signage in the place. When you start off, a helpful sign post shows you color coded walks, and anybody who walks regularly in Ireland will know in most nature walks, you choose a path, then follow the signs with the appropriate color arrows to find your way.
So while you enter thinking, I'll follow the white path, when you're in there this becomes comes absolutely meaningless as they don't properly use the color code system and instead start naming paths after trees, birds and such, the colored arrows disappear entirely.
After passing the famine wall, we continued up into the forest where signage based on the colors totally ended and we ended up at a random carpark. We were considering walking on a narrow public road to get back to the castle but ended up bumbling our way back to the river through pine walk one, two and four (??) because Google maps showed how to head towards the river area.
So while we intended to follow the white path for a 3.5km loop walk, we ended up doing a 7km walk and being back on the same path we entered on the way out. Once you go into the trees and slightly hilly area, you will likely get lost.
Stunning spot but seriously needs to decide a theme for the signage and stick to it.
翻译:尽管评分不高,但这条森林步道风景优美,有一些很棒的景点,包括沉船、令人惊叹的陵墓、冰屋、城堡(嗯!)等等。
然而,低分直接源于这里糟糕的标识。出发时,一个实用的路标会指引你按颜色区分步道。任何经常在爱尔兰散步的人都知道,在大多数自然步道中,你选择一条路径,然后按照带有相应颜色箭头的路标找到路。
所以,当你进去的时候,你会想着“我要走白色的路”,但当你真正进去的时候,这个想法就变得毫无意义了,因为他们没有正确使用颜色标识系统,而是开始用树木、鸟类等来命名路径,彩色箭头也完全消失了。
穿过饥荒墙后,我们继续向上进入森林,那里完全没有基于颜色的标识,我们最终来到了一个随机的停车场。我们原本打算走一条狭窄的公路回城堡,但最终却磕磕绊绊地从松树步道一号、二号和四号(??)回到河边,因为谷歌地图显示了如何前往河边区域。
所以,我们原本打算沿着白色小路绕行3.5公里,结果走了7公里,又回到了出发时走的那条路。一旦进入树林和略微起伏的区域,你很可能会迷路。
景色很棒,但真的需要为标牌确定一个主题,并坚持下去。