Grade: Moderate coastal walk with road section at end
Although this beautiful section of the Fife Coastal Path is beside a river, it doesn’t feel like it. The Tay is so broad here that it seems much more like walking the shore of a lake. The walk offers variety in both the immediate surroundings and the broader vistas, with poignant reminders of man’s influence along the way.
Shortly after leaving Wormit there is a striking memorial to the victims of the 1879 Tay Bridge Disaster, when the original rail bridge foundered, casting a train into the freezing December waters. There were no survivors. From the memorial (one of two erected in December 2013 on either side of the Firth) you have a dramatic view of the second bridge, happily still in use.