Trossachs Explorer is a project run by Stirling Council in partnership with Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park which is designed to enable people to travel into and around the National Park for everyday journeys and leisure trips. It was launched in 2024 and Tactran are delighted to be supporting this amazing project with continued funding through People & Place in 2026/27.

• Following feedback from partners and communities, the new service will be expanded to run all year round. This will build on the success of the initial pilot which was commissioned by Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority, and which ran through the summer months in 2024 and 2025, increasing passenger numbers by 15% from year one to year two.
• It will operate on a similar route to the previous service, providing a vital public transport connection for rural communities between Aberfoyle and Callander, as well as providing visitors with access to key tourist destinations in the Trossachs such as The Lodge, Ben A’an and Loch Katrine Pier.
• The service will operate from Monday to Sunday, with four return journeys per day, and will support connections to the 59 service between Stirling and Callander and the X10A on to Balfron and Glasgow.
• Ticket data and survey feedback from previous years show the Trossachs Explorer being used for walking, hiking, volunteering, work, local access and onward connections. This breadth of use reflects its growing value for rural mobility – reducing car dependency and giving more people a practical, enjoyable way to reach nature rich places without adding to congestion or parking pressures.
• The Trossachs Explorer continues to illustrate what a future low carbon transport network could look like across the National Park, supporting the ambitions of the National Park Mobility Partnership to deliver an inclusive, nature positive and carbon negative travel system.

More information on the service can be found here: The Trossachs Explorer (TEX) | Stirling Council

The 2025 evaluation report can be found here: https://www.lochlomond-trossachs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Trossachs-Explorer-Evaluation-Report_v1.pdf