Aira Force and Gowbarrow Fell Walk

Walk Description:

This 4 mile loop is jam-packed with so much to enjoy. Starting at the National Trust car park on the A591, we will begin by heading through a pleasure garden filled with over half a million native and ornamental trees that were planted by the Howards Family in the late 1700s.

From here we will pick up Aira Beck that will accompany us as we steadily ascend on a sometimes gnarly footpath alongside. Passing a series of waterfalls, it is Aira Force itself, a 70ft fall that will be one of the main spectacles of the walk. This is often a busy spot, and with good reason, but later on in the walk we will escape the crowds and enjoy the wide open space around Gowbarrow Fell.

After taking all the photos we need, we will continue on along the footpath, upwards into open common land, before turning…