Just to give you a few ideas:
- Loch Long: Fishing, paddling, canoeing, diving, pottery and craft gallery, childrens playpark
- The Arrochar Alps: The Cobbler and four Munros accessible on foot from Mansefield House
- Ardgarten (5 minutes drive away): Low level walks, forest trails, mountain bike trails
- Loch Lomond (5 minutes): Beaches, paddling & swimming on the Bonnie Banks, cruises, fishing, restaurants and cafes, seaplane rides, spa days
- Lomond Shores, Balloch (25 minutes): Shopping, restaurants, play park, canoe, bike and pedal boat hire
- Luss (15 minutes): Picturesque conservation village with beaches, easy walks, good coffee shop, and speed boat trips
- Loch Fyne (15 minutes): Loch Fyne Oyster Bar, tree house walk, Fyne Ales brewery, Ardkinglas gardens, Tree Shop garden centre and gift shop
- Cowal Peninsula and Dunoon (40 minutes): Benmore Botanic Gardens, Pucks Glen walks, Coylet Inn restaurant
- Strachur and Strathlachlan (35 minutes): Creggans Inn, Inver Cottage restaurant, Strathlachlan ruined Castle
- Inveraray (25 minutes): Inveraray Castle (home of the Duke of Argyll, head of the Clan Campbell), Inveraray Jail, Loch Fyne Hotel with swimming pool, Inveraray Golf Course, walks, The George pub and restaurant
- Helensburgh (25 minutes): Hill House, swimming pool, restaurants, supermarkets, sea front promenade, ferries to Dunoon and beyond
- Balmaha (40 minutes): play park, forest walks, Loch Lomond, beach, Oak Tree Inn
- Glencoe Ski and Mountain Bike Centre (45 minutes): Ski slopes with ski hire and lessons, downhill mountain bike courses
- Bute (40 minutes plus 5 minutes by ferry): Mount Stuart house, gardens and restaurant (really worth a visit), standing stones, beaches, seals
- Oban (1 hr 10 minutes): Restaurants, sailing, seal watching boat trips, ferries to the Islands
- Glasgow (45 minutes): Museum of Modern Art, Kelvingrove Museum, The Burrell Collection, Science Centre, restaurants, Princes Square shopping mall, Botanic Gardens
For Information about the Water Bus on Loch Lomond, click here
For local bus, train and ferry timetables, click here
For information about Fishing in The Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, click here
For a list of fisheries, click here
