This pleasant, convivial and family-friendly free house is well worth seeking out among the sand dunes of Hayle Towans; the pub is now in effect a gastropub.. The long bar room has a wood floor and panels, some chapel seating, and a wood-burning stove. There are no noisy machines or TV in the bar. The pub name refers to the nearby river, which once ran red with tin ore processing waste from the district's mine workings. Bus services to the village run mainly only in the summer season, although a regular hourly service (T2) is found at Treeve (Bar Lane), 1750m walk away.