719 walks across Wales

• Cardiff and the Vale

  Cardiff Bay Barrage

  A level surfaced walk across the barrage that turned a tidal mudflat into a freshwater lake, with the city behind and the Channel in front.

  3.4 mi1 hr 45 Easy
• Monmouthshire and the Lower Wye

  Chepstow and the Wye Gorge

  North from the oldest surviving stone castle in Britain, along the limestone gorge on a path that clings to the cliffs above the river.

  5.0 mi2 hr 45 Demanding
• Caerphilly and the Eastern Valleys

  Blaenavon Industrial Landscape

  Around the World Heritage landscape above Blaenavon, taking in the coal mine, the ironworks quarries and the tramroads that linked them.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Moderate
• Caerphilly and the Eastern Valleys

  Rhymney Valley Ridgeway

  Long ridge route round the hills enclosing the Rhymney valley, walkable in sections, with woodland, common and old quarries throughout.

  5.6 mi3 hr Demanding
• Newport and the Gwent Levels

  Newport Riverfront and the Transporter Bridge

  Along the Usk through the city, past one of only a handful of working transporter bridges left in the world.

  3.7 mi1 hr 55 Easy
• Newport and the Gwent Levels

  Caerleon and the Legionary Fortress

  One of only three permanent legionary fortresses in Roman Britain, with an amphitheatre, barracks and baths, and a riverside walk along the Usk.

  3.1 mi1 hr 40 Moderate
• Cambrian Mountains

  Pumlumon from Nant-y-moch

  The highest ground in mid Wales, source of both the Severn and the Wye, on a long boggy climb from a remote reservoir with nobody else about.

  6.8 mi4 hr 30 Strenuous
• Cambrian Mountains

  Glaslyn Nature Reserve

  A dark upland lake in a hollow of open moorland, with red kites and merlin overhead and a view that runs to Cadair Idris.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Cambrian Mountains

  Hafren Forest and the Severn

  Waymarked trails along the infant Severn through conifer forest, with a boardwalk over the bog and the option of walking to the actual source.

  3.7 mi2 hr 5 Moderate
• Cambrian Mountains

  Llyn Clywedog and Bryntail Mine

  Around the reservoir arm below the tallest concrete dam in Britain, past the ruins of a lead mine that sits directly beneath it.

  4.3 mi2 hr 30 Demanding
• Severn Valley and Newtown

  Newtown Canal and the Severn

  The terminus of the Montgomery Canal and a riverside loop through the town where Robert Owen was born and the Chartists organised.

  3.7 mi1 hr 55 Easy
• Berwyn and Lake Vyrnwy

  Lake Vyrnwy Woodland Trails

  Waymarked trails climbing through oak and conifer above the lake, with hides, waterfalls and one of the best places in Wales for woodland birds.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Moderate
• Berwyn and Lake Vyrnwy

  Cadair Berwyn

  The highest summit outside the national parks in Wales, on a long ridge above the waterfall, with a cliff-ringed cwm and a lake below the top.

  7.5 mi5 hr Strenuous
• Dyfi Valley and Machynlleth

  Cors Dyfi and the Ospreys

  Boardwalks over a peat bog with an osprey nest in view from a tower hide, on a reserve that is fully accessible throughout.

  1.9 mi1 hr 10 Easy
• Dyfi Valley and Machynlleth

  Machynlleth and Bryn Wg

  Out of the old parliament town onto the wooded hill behind, with the Dyfi valley opening up and the estuary to the west.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Moderate
• Teifi Valley

  Lampeter and the Teifi

  Field paths and riverbank around a university town in the middle Teifi valley, quiet green farmland with the Cambrians on the skyline.

  3.7 mi2 hr 5 Moderate
• Teifi Valley

  Llandysul and the Teifi Rapids

  Stretch of river with genuine rapids running through a wooded gorge, popular with canoeists and good for dippers and kingfishers.

  3.4 mi1 hr 55 Moderate
• Teifi Valley

  Cenarth Falls

  Set of falls on the Teifi where salmon leap in autumn, with a coracle museum, an old mill and a fine eighteenth-century bridge.

  2.5 mi1 hr 25 Moderate
• Ceredigion Coast

  Aberporth to Tresaith

  A mile of coast path between two beaches, ending at a waterfall that drops straight onto the sand.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Ceredigion Coast

  Cardigan Island and the Teifi Mouth

  Clifftop path above the mouth of the Teifi, looking across to an island with seals below it and a colony of seabirds on top.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate
• Ceredigion Coast

  Clarach to Wallog

  Steep switchback of coast path north from Aberystwyth, climbing and dropping repeatedly with the whole of Cardigan Bay alongside.

  3.7 mi2 hr 20 Demanding
• Clwydian Range and Vale of Clwyd

  Denbigh Castle and the Vale

  Hilltop castle with a remarkable triple-towered gatehouse, town walls, and field paths out into the Vale of Clwyd below.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate
• Clwydian Range and Vale of Clwyd

  Prestatyn Hillside

  The northern end of Offa’s Dyke Path, climbing straight off the coast onto a limestone hillside with the Dee estuary and the Wirral laid out below.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Moderate
• Clwydian Range and Vale of Clwyd

  Moel Fenlli

  The hillfort opposite Moel Famau across the pass, with ramparts enclosing twenty-five acres and a fraction of the crowds.

  2.5 mi1 hr 35 Moderate
• Dee Valley and Llangollen

  Chirk Castle and the Aqueduct

  Canal aqueduct and railway viaduct side by side over the Ceiriog, with a border castle above that has been lived in continuously since 1310.

  4.3 mi2 hr 25 Moderate
• Dee Valley and Llangollen

  The Ceiriog Valley

  A quiet valley Lloyd George called a little bit of heaven on earth, with hill paths above it and almost no visitors.

  4.3 mi2 hr 30 Demanding
• Wrexham and Flintshire

  Alyn Waters

  The largest country park in Wrexham, on reclaimed sand and gravel workings, with surfaced paths along the Alyn and through young woodland.

  3.1 mi1 hr 40 Easy
• Clwydian Range and Vale of Clwyd

  Moel Famau from Cilcain

  The long way up the highest Clwydian hill, through woodland and open moor from the eastern side, avoiding the crowded direct path.

  5.6 mi3 hr 10 Demanding
• Upper Wye Valley

  Builth Wells and the Wye

  A riverside loop from the common through the town, with the castle earthworks above and the showground across the water.

  3.1 mi1 hr 40 Easy
• Radnorshire

  Knighton and Glyndŵr’s Way

  The eastern end of Glyndŵr’s Way where it meets Offa’s Dyke, on hills above a border town that sits in two countries at once.

  5.0 mi2 hr 50 Demanding
• Radnorshire

  Presteigne and the Lugg

  Riverside meadows on the border, with a nature reserve of unimproved grassland that has never been ploughed or fertilised.

  3.4 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Montgomery and the Border

  Berriew and the Montgomery Canal

  Black and white village on the Rhiw, with a canal aqueduct carrying boats over the river and level towpath walking in both directions.

  3.7 mi1 hr 55 Easy
• Eryri: Rhinogydd and Harlech

  Rhinog Fach from Cwm Nantcol

  The smaller of the two Rhinogs, reached from a farm at the head of a remote valley, on ground that is all heather and boulder.

  4.3 mi3 hr 30 Strenuous
• Eryri: Rhinogydd and Harlech

  Cwm Nantcol

  Quiet valley walk inland from the coast, with the Rhinogydd rising abruptly at the head of it and old farms along the way.

  5.0 mi2 hr 40 Moderate
• Conwy Valley and the North Coast

  Betws-y-Coed and Swallow Falls

  Riverside and forest path from the busiest village in Eryri to the best known waterfall in Wales, avoiding the road the whole way.

  4.3 mi2 hr 25 Moderate
• Conwy Valley and the North Coast

  Llyn Elsi

  A steady climb through forest from the village to a reservoir on the hill above, with a memorial at the water’s edge and the Carneddau laid out beyond.

  3.7 mi2 hr 15 Moderate
• Conwy Valley and the North Coast

  The Conwy Valley at Tal-y-Cafn

  Field paths and lanes on the eastern bank of the Conwy, with the Carneddau across the water and Bodnant’s gardens on the hillside above.

  3.7 mi2 hr 5 Moderate
• Conwy Valley and the North Coast

  Moel Siabod

  Big isolated mountain with a rocky ridge on its eastern side, giving the widest view in Eryri because nothing stands between it and everything else.

  5.6 mi4 hr 30 Strenuous
• Conwy Valley and the North Coast

  Ty Mawr Wybrnant

  The birthplace of the man who translated the Bible into Welsh, in a hidden valley reached by a steep lane, with woodland walks around it.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Dee Valley and Llangollen

  Llantysilio Mountain

  Open heather moor above the Dee, with a ridge running west from the Horseshoe Pass and hardly anybody on it.

  5.0 mi2 hr 55 Demanding
• Dee Valley and Llangollen

  World’s End and the Eglwyseg Escarpment

  Limestone terraces stacked one above another along miles of escarpment, reached by a road that fords a stream at a place actually called World’s End.

  4.3 mi2 hr 30 Demanding
• Wrexham and Flintshire

  Minera Lead Mines and Esclusham Mountain

  A restored engine house and dressing floors on a hillside that was one of the richest lead fields in Wales, with open moor above it.

  3.7 mi2 hr 5 Moderate
• Wrexham and Flintshire

  Greenfield Valley and St Winefride’s Well

  Valley of ruined mills and abbey remains running down to the Dee, with a holy well at the top that has drawn pilgrims for thirteen centuries without a break.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate
• Monmouthshire and the Lower Wye

  Tintern and the Old Railway

  Riverside loop taking in the abbey, the old station and the wireworks bridge, on the level for most of it.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate
• Monmouthshire and the Lower Wye

  Raglan Castle and the Fields

  The last great castle built in Britain, more palace than fortress, with quiet field paths around it and the Skirrid on the skyline.

  3.7 mi2 hr Moderate
• Monmouthshire and the Lower Wye

  The Three Castles Walk

  Field paths linking White Castle, Skenfrith and Grosmont, three Norman castles held as a single lordship and still standing within a few miles of each other.

  5.0 mi2 hr 45 Moderate
• Newport and the Gwent Levels

  Caldicot Castle and the Sea Wall

  Castle in a country park, with flat walking out across the levels to the sea wall and the Severn crossings filling the view.

  3.7 mi2 hr Easy
• Newport and the Gwent Levels

  Magor Marsh

  The last piece of natural fenland left on the Gwent Levels, with boardwalks, hides and a landscape unchanged since the Romans drained everything around it.

  2.5 mi1 hr 25 Easy
• North Pembrokeshire Coast

  Garn Fawr

  Rocky hillfort on the Pen Caer peninsula with hut circles among the outcrops and a view over the whole of north Pembrokeshire.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• North Pembrokeshire Coast

  Solva Harbour and the Gribin

  A drowned valley harbour with a steep grassy ridge between it and the sea, giving the best view of the inlet from directly above.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate

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