The riverside path on the north bank of the river passes Riverside Place, with Ayr's three blocks of high-rise flats.

The pathway provides a view of Mill Street, the former industrial area of the town on the south bank.  This area has been entirely rebuilt, and is now occupied mainly by municipal and sheltered housing. A recent addition is the Ayr Central shopping centre.

Mill Street was so called because it led to the Nether Mill. It was for many years Ayr's industrial centre, having two tanneries, a brewery and an unsuccessful municipal coal pit. Also here was Templeton's worsted spinning factory, built in 1878. The undistinguished shed-like building, with transformers on the right, is what remains of the original Ayr Electricity Works, which began generating in 1896 and, amongst other benefits, permitted the operation of electric trams from 1901.

Turner's Bridge links the Burgh with Wallacetown.  A steel footbridge, with ornate gantries supporting lamps, it was built in 1900 on the site of an old ford by A.M. Turner, whose brewery stood close to the southern approach to this bridge.

From the bridge, the view downstream includes the Auld and New Bridges and the former Darlington Church. The view upstream is dominated by the railway bridge with the cast-iron walkway - the 'Cage Walk' attached to it.

Text based on Historic Ayr, published by Ayrshire Archeological and Natural History Society, July 2001