Art in Grizedale Forest

1 The route follows the green waymarks of the Silurian Trail almost to Satterthwaite. Starting from the Visitor Centre, cut diagonally left across the play area, go through the doorway in the wall out on to a lane and turn right. Just beyond the farmhouse on the right, leave the lane for the path highlighted by a waymark post. The path leaves and rejoins a cycle route before coming to a forestry road, where you turn right.

2 Ignore the first path that doubles back left, then leave the forestry road for a track forking left. With a wall on the right and bracken and bramble on the left, the track climbs steadily uphill. After dipping to ford a couple of streams the route forks left and cuts across to the forestry road on the horizon. Turn left here and follow the road south, with Carron Crag's summit rock directly ahead. Where the track bends sharp left leave it to scale a stile in a deer fence. A little path now wriggles through trees and scrub to the summit trig point and the best viewpoint of the day. To the west, the Coniston fells are laid out across the horizon.

3 On the descent you'll see a large wood-carved ring, an exhibit by Linda Watson called 17? South. Seen from the path, it frames the village of Satterthwaite to perfection and makes a good seat to enjoy the view. The path continues to descend to rejoin the forestry road abandoned earlier. Just to the left you'll see a huge wooden statue, David Kemp's The Ancient Forester. Back at the junction, turn right along the forestry road to a crossroads of tracks, where you go straight ahead (south) on the green route. The track ends at a turning circle, but the route continues as a narrow path that weaves through lovely mixed woodland. Along this section you'll see a series of symbolic art, but it is less interesting than the beauty of the surroundings.

4 The path descends to a forestry road. Turn right, then take the left fork forest road (south west), down to the valley bottom, where you'll see the open-air cinema screen on the right. The track arcs left. Leave it for the waymarked path on the right, which passes a sheltered seat before rejoining the track further uphill. On leaving the forest the track degenerates into a narrow walled lane, Moor Lane, which comes out to the Satterthwaite road by a small car park.

5 Turn left along the lane into Satterthwaite, passing the inn and the church, before taking the second cul-de-sac on the right, up past the cemetery towards Bogle Wood. At the terminus take the left of two lilac-banded waymarkers (northbound), the Bogle Crag Trail. The path heads north through woodland. Ignore the path doubling back uphill at the next junction, and turn right on meeting the forestry road.

6 Where the Bogle Crag Trail climbs away to the right, go straight ahead on a winding forestry trail. Abandon this at a white waymarker for a narrow path on the left, which descends to join a tarmac path (blue waymarkers). Take the lower path at the next junction.

7 Pass beneath a huge footbridge, then double back left. Sculptures come thick and fast now. Paul Dodgson's, Shadow Faces of the Forest and Family Day Out are rather like Alberto Giacometti sculptures in wood. You may hear jungle music coming through the trees, and if you're lucky you can join in. First there's Jony Easterby's African Drums and Marimba, then there's Will Menter's Rabbit Hole Marimba. The route now weaves its way back past the foundations and terraces of the old hall to the road just short of the Visitor Centre.