Whitelee Windfarm
Whitelee Windfarm
4.5
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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- holiday50GlasgowEast Kilbride, United KingdomExcellent tour guideWe have visited the wind farm many times over the years, but for the first time got the bus tour. Stewart was an excellent tour guide with lots of information and was extremely kind interacting with our grandson. He had a ball and wants to go again. The cafe is very nice and I was even able to have a gluten free scone. Definitely recommend the tour.Visited February 2024Traveled with familyWritten February 12, 2024
- Very interesting visitWondered about this place for years and eventually decided to take 8yr and 10yr grandsons. We all thoroughly enjoyed the visit, great cafe, interesting displays and the bus tour was great. Lots of very interesting info and the interaction from the driver (Stewart) was excellent, really great with the kids asking questions, very friendly and helped make the visit a memorable one.Visited July 2024Traveled with familyWritten July 24, 2024
- B. StephensonKeswick, United KingdomAn unexpected great stop! Good for runners, walkers and those passionate about clean energyA brilliant place to go for a run and in a very scenic area. Excellent coffee to finish it with. They are clearly doing a brilliant job creating clean energy. Service was great and seemed to be doing well at teaching folk about the science and impact they are having though wasn’t able to fully engage.Visited December 2024Traveled as a coupleWritten December 7, 2024
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Alan M
Giffnock, UK
Aug 2021 • Couples
The food is good and the pricing is fair, but the service is glacial. With four people in front of me, and none of their orders were complicated, it took 20 minutes to get served. There were two staff on the counter. The girl is very pleasant but hopelessly inefficient. The bloke just seemed to pick up trays and bump into things and really seemed to have no purpose. They really do need to get someone in to show them how to run a cafe that doesn’t involve their customers dying of old age in the queue!
Written August 12, 2021
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David H
Busby. Scotland
Aug 2022
Visited Whitelee Windfarm Visitor Centre today with grandchildren.
They enjoyed the interactive items in the exhibition area, although two were not working. One unit required an engineer to reboot the software, which took about 20 minutes and even then, was clunky in the way it operated, i.e. Pressed buttons and no response.
We then took a map and headed out for the short walk. All walks down to the main turbine area involve walking firstly on a very rough roadway. Been a long time since it was last levelled and you have to walk the entire area on the bottoming rocks which protrude along the entire distance. Certainly not child friendly for very young children and probably extremely difficult if not impossible for anyone in a wheelchair or with a childs buggy. Really needs at least a tarmac pathway from the start down to the first turbine. The worst part though was the climb back up again. Not easy due to this bad surface and the incline. I doubt that anyone in a wheelchair could make it back up.
Got back just after 4.30 and headed to the cafe where we told that it had closed at 4.30
How to welcome tourists – a visitor centre that closes its cafe at 4.30 !! exactly at the time when a lot of people who have done either of the walks would be returning.
We had a seat at one of the rickety picnic style tables on the viewing platform. The initial one we chose, had uncleared dishes piled on it, and the one we did sit at had a broken seat panel. None of them had seen a coat of paint for some considerable time. The floor of the viewing platform was disgusting. Covered in cigarette ends, crisps and other food remnants. Doesn’t look like the centre own a brush.
The interactive area is ok, the site of all these wind turbines is amazing, the cafe needs to rethink its opening times and cleaning of the public areas needs serious attention. .. and as we left at 5.15, the cafe had locked up and the uncollected dishes remained where the were.
Won’t be rushing back.
They enjoyed the interactive items in the exhibition area, although two were not working. One unit required an engineer to reboot the software, which took about 20 minutes and even then, was clunky in the way it operated, i.e. Pressed buttons and no response.
We then took a map and headed out for the short walk. All walks down to the main turbine area involve walking firstly on a very rough roadway. Been a long time since it was last levelled and you have to walk the entire area on the bottoming rocks which protrude along the entire distance. Certainly not child friendly for very young children and probably extremely difficult if not impossible for anyone in a wheelchair or with a childs buggy. Really needs at least a tarmac pathway from the start down to the first turbine. The worst part though was the climb back up again. Not easy due to this bad surface and the incline. I doubt that anyone in a wheelchair could make it back up.
Got back just after 4.30 and headed to the cafe where we told that it had closed at 4.30
How to welcome tourists – a visitor centre that closes its cafe at 4.30 !! exactly at the time when a lot of people who have done either of the walks would be returning.
We had a seat at one of the rickety picnic style tables on the viewing platform. The initial one we chose, had uncleared dishes piled on it, and the one we did sit at had a broken seat panel. None of them had seen a coat of paint for some considerable time. The floor of the viewing platform was disgusting. Covered in cigarette ends, crisps and other food remnants. Doesn’t look like the centre own a brush.
The interactive area is ok, the site of all these wind turbines is amazing, the cafe needs to rethink its opening times and cleaning of the public areas needs serious attention. .. and as we left at 5.15, the cafe had locked up and the uncollected dishes remained where the were.
Won’t be rushing back.
Written August 9, 2022
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Mar 2023 • Family
Visited today with my two sons and took the tour bus around part of the windfarm. We all thoroughly enjoyed it due to how informative Stuart the bus driver/tour guide was who also couldn't be more helpful if he tried. Staff in visitor centre also friendly.
Written March 1, 2023
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melvyngilbert
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Nov 2019
Only ten miles and twenty minutes in the car gets you to the Whitelee Windfarm Visitor Centre. It is therefore no surprise that on a clear day the UK's largest on land windfarm can be seen from the centre of Glasgow (by the Mitchel Library). The visitors centre has free parking, toilets, a cafe and a small exhibition area. It is advisable to pick up a map from here. Although the area is well signposted the map includes each individual turbine which are clearly numbered both on the map as well as the turbine itself making it almost impossible to get lost. There are two signposted walks. One is labelled the "daily mile", which I guess changes from time to time and the walk I took is marked as the 'Lochgoin circuit". This is a eight mile walk which took me about two and a half hours to complete. The windfarm is on Eaglesham moor which is situated at 300 metres elevation. It is a bleak place with no shelter and usually noticeably colder than the nearby city. The walk takes you past quite a few of the turbines which are enormous when you get up close to them. It is impossible to resist standing still by them and bending your neck backwards to watch the blades spinning up high. The noise they make is eerily fascinating and the shadows of the blades that go shooting past your feet on the ground are quite hypnotic. After about a mile I found that I was walking alone with no other people in site. I passed the Loch and a spruce plantation but mostly my view was of sparse moorland with over a hundred whizzing turbines in my view at any given time (there are 215 turbines here in total). I was lucky to get back to the visitor centre before it closed at 5pm to get a coffee as my reward for a long walk and then I used the virtual reality headset to experience being out on the windfarm all over again.
Written December 4, 2019
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Jennifer S
Coatbridge, UK
Oct 2019 • Solo
Great for everyone here whether you just want to go check the turbines out or go on a 8 mile hike. They have a very informative visitors centre echo sill equip you with a walking map and give you information on the history of the turbines. There's a lovely cafe serving soup and sandwiches. I did the 8 mile loch walk and it was stunning, walking by many a turbine and the loch then through which felt like a Christmas tree farm. Lovely day out.
Written October 18, 2019
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Laura190615
Scotland, UK
Jul 2017 • Family
Having never been before we thought we'd give here a try today with friends and their kids too.
Great summer activities available and free!! Kids had a blast. Easily spend a few hours and learn some fabulous facts. We'll definitely be back, give it a go.
Great summer activities available and free!! Kids had a blast. Easily spend a few hours and learn some fabulous facts. We'll definitely be back, give it a go.
Written July 6, 2017
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David R
Glasgow, UK
Apr 2017
Walking in the middle of the windfarm is interesting for adults and kids alike. There are plenty of paths and a range of distances - get information from the visitor centre before setting out. If it tips down there is nowhere to hide so dress appropriately!
Written April 9, 2017
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David R
Glasgow, UK
Mar 2023
The information in the centre is pretty good, and it's free parking for when you want to walk around the wind turbines.
It seemed unusually clear as we walked around today and we could see North to Ben Lomond, and West to Arran & Ailsa Craig. Very pretty!
There are trails of varying length, from a mile or so up to 15. Obviously there are lots of wind turbines here and it's interesting to stand directly under the blades and listen to them as you see them go round overhead.
It seemed unusually clear as we walked around today and we could see North to Ben Lomond, and West to Arran & Ailsa Craig. Very pretty!
There are trails of varying length, from a mile or so up to 15. Obviously there are lots of wind turbines here and it's interesting to stand directly under the blades and listen to them as you see them go round overhead.
Written March 6, 2023
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ChristineB55Geelong
Geelong, Australia
Jun 2019 • Couples
We stopped here on a one day tour. We’ve seen wind farms previously, but not in such large numbers in a concentrated area. You don’t need a long stop to visit.
It’s interesting, & the information centre & cafe are good to escape to warm up.
It’s interesting, & the information centre & cafe are good to escape to warm up.
Written June 24, 2019
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June A
Glasgow, UK
May 2019 • Business
A great place for exhibition , energy awareness and activity challenges . The visitor centre and cafe are great ,
Written May 28, 2019
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Can you walk around the windfarm in the evening? (after the visitor centre closes?)
Written August 10, 2017
Tricia0404
Hamilton, United Kingdom
Yes, it's just the centre that closes.i can't remember the time the farm itself closes but I'm pretty sure it is quite a bit later.
Written August 11, 2017
Michaelpmp
Glasgow, United Kingdom
They are allowed on the decking outside but unfortunately, are not allowed in the cafe due to health and safety reasons.
Written September 1, 2016
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