Trail 6 - From the car park opposite the Woollen Mill, turn right on the main road and go over the bridge. Take the rst turning on the left up a hill opposite the Fairy Falls Hotel. Go up the hill, Trail 6 straight across at two crossroads onto the road to Crafnant. 50m after the crossroads, there is a & junction at which you take the right fork, signposted ‘Cemetery’ and Llyn Cowlyd. After a steep trefriw Trywydd 7 100m, go into the wood after the last house on the right (Ty Creigiau), on a forestry track. This outdoors | awyr agored track leads, after 300m to a junction by the Water Header Reservoir. Take the lower level, right hand track and follow it for approximately 200m at which point a wall comes in from the right parallel to the track. Continue along the track until 50m after the wall turns right down a hill at this point, turn left o forestry track (waymarked) opposite where a diagonal path comes up.

The path leads up through trees to a wooden bridge over a ditch. Turn left immediately after the bridge and continue upwards to a forestry track. On reaching this, turn right up the hill. At the junction, Turn sharp left (straight on leads to Trefriw Spa and Dolgarrog) and, after 40m, there is a footpath on the right that leads up to the Trefriw Rock Cannon after about 100m. Return from the cannon to the main track and continue through the forest until you reach the Llyn Cowlyd road again after about 700m. At this point there is a ne view up the Crafnant valley to the hills beyond.

Turn left down the road, passing the track to Gelli Newydd, which is taken by Trail 7 (see below). Alternatively, you can walk on a footpath along the edge of the wood which follows the road downwards. At the sharp right hand bend, turn left by a prominent yellow grit box onto a track back into the wood. After 10m bear left through a plantation of giant rs. After 200m, there is a junction with a larger path on which you turn right (waymarked). This leads to a forestry track and then onto the Water Works, from where you can retrace your route back to the car park.

Distance: 3.5km (2.2 miles)

Trail 7 - Walk down the drive to Gelli Newydd, and a dramatic viewpoint for the hills above Llyn Crafnant; pass a water wheel and leat on your right and, after the house, cross the ladder stile to your right and turn left onto an old track. Follow this track, which can be muddy and wet, along the edge of a eld and across two streams. Continue on the waymarked wet path through to the edge of wood where you turn sharp left down to a stile before continuing through the wood to a wooden bridge. Cross this and follow the path in the wood and go through two gates. After the second, turn sharp left down the hill to emerge on to the Crafnant road.

Turn right and walk up the lane for 250m to a footpath sign pointing o to the left. Follow this path down to a bridge across the Afon Crafnant. Cross the stile and follow the fence to a gravel T track along which you turn left. This track follows the fence, crosses a stile and returns to be close o ta l to the river. Eventually, after a farm building and just before the Crafnant road, you reach a d s) is ile wooden bridge on your left. By the bridge, leave the track by turning right onto a waymarked and tan m ce: (5 signed path. Follow it to the left for a few metres before going up four steps and through a gate 8km

into a eld. Turn left onto the path to the opening into the next eld, cross this and, at the 6) Coed Creigiau (Trail Main Image: opening in the hedge, turn left following the edge of the eld. The path continues through trees, near the river, across a eld to emerge onto the road by the children’s playground. Turn left on the Highlights: road alongside some bungalows, to go down to a T junction, where you go left over a bridge The Trefriw Rock Cannon. Beautiful woodland walk. across the river and follow roads down through Trefriw to your starting point. Stunning views of the Crafnant Valley.

Distance: 4.5km / 2.8 miles