Torc is popular for hill walkers as it can be accessed from a marked stone-step path its base at Torc Waterfall, which then becomes a small road (the Old Kenmare Road) from the top of Torc Waterfall to the mountain itself, and then finishes with a track of wooden railway sleepers over the underlying bogland to its summit at . The route can thus be completed without full hiking boots, and requires no special navigational skills.