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The Turner view, Crook o’ Lune

The River Lune Millennium Park stretches from Bull Beck near Caton to Salt Ayre in Lancaster, and offers leisure and everyday transport opportunities with linked footpaths and cycleways. The route is decorated with unusual and thought provoking artworks.

The River Lune is noted for its salmon, and September and October are the best times to see them, along with the many sea trout also found in the river. The Environment Agency monitors fish stocks, and in 1996 over 2000 salmon and sea trout went over Forge Weir. In the 1960s a disease hit salmon nationally, and while local stocks have yet to fully recover, the number of salmon is rising steadily. These days, over 13,000 fish are recorded annually in the Lune.

Cross the viaduct and continue a short distance further to a path on the right. This heads through a gate and then curves immediately right beside a wall to a narrow footbridge immediately below the viaduct. Cross another footbridge to gain the true left bank of the Lune (i.e. the left bank when looking downstream.)