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One Big Adventure Snowdonia Mountains and Coast ONE BIG ADVENTURE HAVE YOU PACKED FOR SNOWDONIA? www.visitsnowdonia.info WELCOME Welcome to our ‘One Big Adventure’ brochure. Fferi i Ddulyn / Dun L I This is your guide to all year round, outdoor and aoghair indoor activities in the most spectacular scenery e of Snowdonia National Park, Llyˆn Peninsula and Conwy Cambrian Coastline. Morfa 02 Map 04 Around and about Tal-y-cafn 06 Home is where the heart is 08 Local knowledge 10 Ideas 18 Information and accommodation 20 Beaches 23 Bird watching Cronfa Alwen Coedwig 24 Walking – coastal and upland Gwydyr 28 Cycling and mountain biking Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr 32 Fishing Nantmor 34 Water sports – inland and coastal Llangwm 38 Golf Cricieth Climbing Porthmadog Llandderfel 40 Morfa Bychan Horse riding 42 Llaniestyn 44 Outdoor centres Porth Iago Porth Oer/ 46 Indoor attractions Whistling Sands 48 Outdoor attractions Park 50 Heritage attractions Ynys Sant Tudno 52 Tourist information centres Whilst every effort has been made to ensure accuracy in this publication, Gwynedd Council cannot accept responsibility for any errors, inaccuracies or omissions or for any matter in any Y Friog way connected with or arising out of the publication of the information contained within this brochure. Snowdonia Llyn Myngul Talyllyn Published by: Gwynedd Council, Economy and Community Department, County Offices, Caernarfon, Gwynedd LL55 1SH. Tel: 01286 679 630, Email: [email protected], www.visitsnowdonia.info. For more detailed information, Photographs: C P Photography, Gwynedd Council, rspb-images.com, see the OS maps that cover Kevin J Richardson - PHOTOWALES, David Toase, Turtle Photography, the area: David Williams, Kevin McCann, www.photolibrarywales.com, Visit Wales Image Centre, © Crown copyright (2014) Visit Wales. Explorer: OL17, OL18, OL23 253, 254 Design by: Gill Advertising, 16 Neptune Court, Vanguard Way, Landranger: 114, 115, 116, 123, Cardiff Bay CF24 5PJ. Tel: 029 2043 6555, www.gilladvertising.com 124, 125, 135, 136 www.visitsnowdonia.info One Big Adventure 3 Fferi i Ddulyn / Dun L I aoghair e Conwy Morfa Tal-y-cafn Cronfa Alwen Coedwig Gwydyr Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr Nantmor Llangwm Cricieth Porthmadog Llandderfel Morfa Bychan Llaniestyn Porth Iago Porth Oer/ Whistling Sands Park Ynys Sant Tudno Primary route A Road B Road Main Railway Line & Station Narrow Gauge Railway Y Friog Snowdonia National Park Llyn Myngul Welsh National Cycle Route Talyllyn Tourist Information Blue Flag Award For more detailed information, Seaside Award see the OS maps that cover Green Coast Award the area: Forest Explorer: OL17, OL18, OL23 253, 254 Mountain Peak Landranger: 114, 115, 116, 123, Castle 124, 125, 135, 136 Airport Leisure Centre Swimming Pool 4 Around and about AROUND AND ABOUT One minute you’re up, up attractions and places to visit – Llyn Tegid, Wales’s largest natural and away in the mountains. this part of Wales is especially rich lake. There are forests too – most The next, you’re on the beach. in history, heritage and culture. famously, the Coed y Brenin Forest It’s no exaggeration to say Park, known far and wide for its that this is a part of the world Cardigan Bay world-class mountain biking. you can be on top of in the Along with the Llyˆn morning (Snowdon), and have Peninsula, Cardigan Bay Conwy Valley Saharan quantities of sand puts the ‘coast’ into beneath your feet in the and Hiraethog Snowdonia Mountains and Coast. afternoon (at Harlech or Black What a difference a few Mountains meet the sea all along Rock Sands, Morfa Bychan). miles can make. The green, fertile this lovely shoreline – but most Conwy Valley is flanked on the We’ve split Snowdonia Mountains memorably at two outstandingly west by thick forests and to the and Coast into six areas. Here’s an beautiful estuaries, Mawddach east by the heather moors of introduction to each: and Dyfi. There are other Hiraethog (otherwise known as the highlights aplenty – Harlech Castle, Denbigh Moors), a huge expanse picturesque Aberdyfi and little of unexplored upland. All in all, it’s Cricieth, railways at Fairbourne and Tywyn. an area of great variety, with the Porthmadog and the mountain village of Capel Curig at Southern Snowdonia Vale of Ffestiniog one end and the historic walled Snowdonia has its own town of Conwy on the other. There’s coast – the southern north/south divide. shores of the Llyˆn Peninsula and The south still has Bangor, Caernarfon, the hauntingly beautiful Dwyryd mountains – lots of them – but Estuary. And there’s country – lots they are greener and rounder. Cader Llanberis and the of it, including chunks of Snowdonia Idris dominates the scene, rearing Villages of Snowdonia and the wooded Vale of Ffestiniog. its misty head above Dolgellau, Mister Big in these parts is – guess? So you’re not short of scenery. while further east the Aran, Arenigs – Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon, the highest It’s the same when it comes to and Berwyns rise above Bala and mountain in Wales and England. One Big Adventure 5 Bala Barmouth Carreg Samson, Morfa Bychan But it’s by no means the only attractions. There are mountain lakes and wooded valleys too, and a coastline of big beaches and sheltered straits. Man-made places also make it into the big league, especially world-famous Caernarfon Castle. Llyˆn Peninsula Betws y Coed Blaenau Ffestiniog It’s ‘Snowdon’s arm’, a wildly beautiful peninsula that wraps you in. Llyˆn’s mixture of culture and heritage, traditional farmsteads and little ports, cliffs and bays, beaches and sea-cliffs is quite unlike anything else you’ll find in Wales – or elsewhere, for that matter. Little wonder, then, that the coast is a protected ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’. Walk it on the Llyˆn Coastal Path (now part of the all-Wales Coast Path). www.visitsnowdonia.info Llanberis Pass Llanbedrog 6 Home is where the heart is HOME IS WHERE THE heart IS My name is Ioan Doyle. I am sense of freedom and beauty that This place, the mountains, the coast, a dry stone waller and sheep engulfs the spirit of the Snowdonia the sea make me feel proud, proud farmer living and working in Mountains and Coast area. of where I am lucky enough to call the Snowdonia National Park. home. I am also proud that so many Utilising the land for my livelihood I am also an outdoor fanatic flock to the area seeking their own but also personal enjoyment is and have a bit of a talent for fulfilments and pleasures within the something that I try to capture climbing, a talent which has plethora of fun-filled activities and every day. Through my talents as allowed me to travel the world outdoor opportunities this amazing a rock climber I have been lucky as a renowned rock climber. landscape has to offer. There’s an enough to have visited and climbed adventure out there for everyone. Growing up on a small hill farm in some of the greats in world nestled in the heart of the outdoor destinations. I am now We all have our favourites, but Carneddau Mountains, life revolved able to satisfyingly declare that the for me, the only way to grasp the around the outdoors, nature and the Snowdonia Mountains and Coast pure essence of the Snowdonia elements; trying to scratch a living region is the only place in the world Mountains and Coast region is on the barren hills. It is a far cry where all you could ever desire from an adventure into the Carneddau from the perceived farmhouse living the outdoors is within a 20 mile Mountain range. The Carneddau is many people picture when conjuring radius. From coast to mountain, this the highest plateau of land south of scenes of Snowdonia, yet for all area is definitely the beating heart the Cairngorms in Scotland, with the the challenges and ruggedness of outdoor adventure and activities highest point of this 27,000 acres of this place comes an overriding in the United Kingdom. of land being Carnedd Llywelyn, One Big Adventure 7 Know YOUR WELSH Welsh Greetings Bore da Good Morning Nos da Good Night Sut mae? How are you? Hwyl Goodbye Diolch Thanks Croeso Welcome Da iawn Very good the landscape and one with nature. Iechyd da Good health Here the air is silent from the modern day hum – the only traffic you may encounter is a passing Welsh Place Names sheep, or a Carneddau wild pony. No Phones, no cars. Here, somehow and meanings time can stand still, allowing the Aber The Mouth of a River brief taste of insignificance and Betws House of Prayer solitude that cleanses the soul. Bach/fach Small or Little But for all the romantics of the Bryn Hill mountains, they can soon bring Capel Chapel reality a little too close. Weather can Castell Castle change before your eyes; it certainly Caer/Gaer Fort brings forth those ‘challenges’ Coed Wood that keeps them wild. Yet, for all Ffynnon Well or Spring the dangers the conditions bring, Glan River Bank without them the mountains would Glyn Glen or Valley be a different place, where perhaps Llan Church or Parish their powers would be less revered Llyn Lake or Pool Llanberis Pass and respected. In their enduring Mynydd Mountain presence however, respect towards Nant Stream Snowdonia’s 3rd highest peak. the landscape and elements need’s Pen Top or End Stretching from the sweeping Nant to be paramount... always. Pentre Village Ffrancon valley to the historic Whether at work or at play, our Pont Bridge “Conwy Castle” and to Betws y magnificent mountains and splendid Tre Homestead or Town Coed the bustling ‘gateway to coastline will always continue T yˆ House Snowdonia’.
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