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Barrhead
Town in East Renfrewshire, Scotland

Barrhead

Barrhead is a town in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, thirteen kilometres (8 mi) southwest of Glasgow city centre on the edge of the Fereneze Braes.

Plan a trip to Barrhead→From Ingliston, Edinburgh

At the 2011 census its population was 17,268.

Get in

Getting to Barrhead

Barrhead is about 120 km (75 mi) north of Edmonton at the intersection of Highway 33 (Grizzly Trail) and Highway 18. Travelers from Edmonton can either take Highway 2 north to Westlock and follow Highway 18, or take follow Highways 16 and 43 to Highway 33. The nearest international airport is in Edmonton. Barrhead has a small airport southwest of town but it has no commercial flights.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Barrhead Centennial Museum

    5629 49 St, barrheadcentennialmuseum@gmail.com.

  2. 02
    Fort Assiniboine National Historic Site
  3. 03
    Klondyke Ferry

    The Klondike (Vega) Ferry on the Athabasca River is one of only 7 remaining ferries in the Province of Alberta.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Fort Assiniboine Sandhills Wildland Provincial Park

    Fort Assiniboine (50 km NW of Barrhead),.

  2. 02
    Thunder Lake Provincial Park

    Located on the north-western shore of Thunder Lake, the park features setting for boating, water-skiing, swimming, running, fishing and camping.

  3. 03
    Barrhead Golf & Country Club

    59213 Range Road 40 (4 km W of Barrhead),.

  4. 04
    Paddle River Golf Course & Country Club

    9-hole golf course in the town of Barrhead; excellent course for everyone from beginners to advanced golfers.

How locals move

Getting around Barrhead the local way

  • Get inThere's a range of long-stay parks off-site, with transfer minibuses.
  • Get in(The airport is in "Local" zone, so the "City" zone fare isn't enough.) McGill's Bus 757 trundles every 30 min to Paisley Gilmour Street railway station, which has very frequent trains to Glasgow Central, and outbound to Gourock (for Dunoon ferry), Wemyss Bay (for Bute ferry), Ardrossan (for Arran ferry) and Ayr.
  • Get inThe fare is the same by any route: in 2024 a day trip is £15 and an open return is £20.
  • Get inFor a day trip, park up at one of the outlying railway stations, if you can find a space among all the commuter vehicles.
  • Get inThe crossing takes 2 hr 30 min, with almost a dozen car ferries a day.
  • Get inFrom Europe the nearest ferry port is Newcastle upon Tyne, with overnight ferries from IJmuiden near Amsterdam.
  • Get inFerries from the Clyde islands and Argyll peninsula sail to ports "doon the water" at Gourock, Wemyss Bay and Ardrossan.
  • Get inIn the twentieth century paddle steamers ran between Glasgow and other Clyde ports, this continues with occasional sailings of the PS Waverley but these are only a realistic option for a day trip from Glasgow.

From Wikivoyage: Glasgow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Ribbet32 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.