t the junction with the B5292 turn right. After a short distance, turn right again to enter the forest, then left, following good tracks. You are now on the C2C. This track brings you back eventually to the road, turn left and climb for a short distance to the Visitor Centre on your right.

he B5289 is narrow in parts and can get busy so be careful. There are paths you can use but you can miss them. If there is a lot of traffic, turn around and go back the way you came or, as a relaxing alternative, take the launch from the Lodore Landing Stage. For this, turn left after the bridge at Grange onto the B5289 for 1½ miles (walking if busy) when you will see the Lodore Hotel on your right. There is a spectacular waterfall behind the hotel, made famous by the Lakes poet, Robert Southey in "The Cataract of Lodore". The launch is signposted a little further on past the hotel.

here is plenty to do at the Forest Park Visitor Centre, a good "cuppa" and home baking. Spoil yourself with some chocolate cake – you’ve earned it! Go through the Centre with the car parks to your right and just keep going. The descent through the forest is sheet cycling pleasure for all abilities. You could spend the day here.

he track emerges back onto a road at the bottom – look out for The Bishop, a white painted rock half way up the fellside. Turn right and follow the road through Braithwaite village, Ullock and Portinscale, turning right at the Derwentwater Hotel to cross the footbridge again and return to Keswick.