Barstobrick Visitor Centre

Barstobrick Visitor Centre and Galloway & Southern Ayrshire Biosphere

14 years ago, Barstobrick was upland grazing, but the Austin family have brought imagination and major changes which have created a welcoming Visitor Centre. Today visitors see farming and equitation blended with native wildlife. You’ll also find a display from Scotland’s first Biosphere, in Galloway and south Ayrshire. This UNESCO designation marks out rare places with a very special combination of landscape, wildlife and culture.

On arrival you’ll see a display of modern farm machinery that has helped to make farming less labour intensive. You can pop up to the stables and meet the ponies that take visitors on tours of the landscape.

The indoor arena will host showjumping on the Saturday and dressage on the Sunday.

Join Robin Austin on a guided farm walk, meet the animals and listen as a storyteller brings the history of the hill to life.

Directions: Leave the A75 at Ringford and follow the A762 (signposted Laurieston) for just over one mile. Turn right up the hill to Barstobrick Visitor Centre. Ample parking beside the Visitor Centre with spaces reserved for disabled drivers.