719 walks across Wales

• South Pembrokeshire Coast

  Angle Peninsula

  The far south-west corner of Pembrokeshire, with a sheltered bay on one side, a surf beach on the other, and Victorian forts guarding the haven.

  4.3 mi2 hr 25 Moderate
• South Pembrokeshire Coast

  Carew Castle and the Tidal Mill

  A castle that is half fortress and half Elizabethan mansion, with the only restored tidal mill in Wales at the end of its millpond.

  3.1 mi1 hr 40 Easy
• Bannau Brycheiniog: Black Mountain

  Llyn y Fan Fawr

  The larger and far quieter of the two Fan lakes, sitting under the eastern side of the Black Mountain escarpment with almost nobody there.

  4.3 mi2 hr 40 Demanding
• Bannau Brycheiniog: Black Mountain

  Carreg yr Ogof

  Limestone country on the north-western edge of the Black Mountain, riddled with shakeholes and swallets, and about as empty as Wales gets.

  5.0 mi2 hr 50 Demanding
• Bannau Brycheiniog: Black Mountains

  Pen Trumau and Waun Fach

  The long approach to the highest point in the Black Mountains, over a shapelier subsidiary top, on peat that has swallowed many boots.

  6.8 mi4 hr 20 Strenuous
• Bannau Brycheiniog: Fforest Fawr and the Waterfalls

  Ystradfellte and the Limestone Country

  Above the waterfalls onto open limestone country, with shakeholes, dry valleys and the river disappearing underground.

  5.0 mi2 hr 50 Demanding
• Swansea and Neath

  The Neath Canal

  A level towpath along a restored canal through the Vale of Neath, with locks, an aqueduct and wooded valley sides above.

  3.7 mi1 hr 55 Easy
• Swansea and Neath

  Gnoll Estate

  An eighteenth-century designed landscape above Neath, with cascades, ponds and a mock ruin, restored after decades of neglect.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate
• Cardiff and the Vale

  Kenfig Dunes and Pool

  One of the great dune systems of Britain, with a natural freshwater lake behind it and a medieval town buried somewhere underneath.

  3.7 mi2 hr 5 Moderate
• Cardiff and the Vale

  Dunraven Bay and the Walled Garden

  A short circuit round the headland above the beach, taking in an Iron Age fort, a Victorian walled garden and the site of a demolished castle.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate
• Conwy Valley and the North Coast

  Llyn Crafnant

  Full circuit of a lake in a steep-sided valley above the Conwy, with forestry on one side and open crag on the other.

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

  Llyn Geirionydd

  Lake with a monument to a sixth-century poet on the hill above it, old lead mine workings around the shore, and water clear enough to swim in.

  2.8 mi1 hr 35 Moderate
• Conwy Valley and the North Coast

  Gwydir Forest

  Waymarked trails through a forest riddled with abandoned lead mines, with small lakes, spoil heaps and shafts among the trees.

  4.3 mi2 hr 25 Moderate
• Eryri: Ogwen and the Carneddau

  Tal y Fan

  The northernmost mountain in Eryri, small but properly rocky, on a pass crossed by a Roman road and lined with standing stones.

  4.3 mi2 hr 40 Demanding
• Eryri: Ogwen and the Carneddau

  Aber Ogwen and the Lavan Sands

  Flat shoreline walking on the Menai Strait with an enormous expanse of sand at low tide and Anglesey directly opposite.

  3.1 mi1 hr 40 Easy
• Eryri: Ogwen and the Carneddau

  Nant y Coed and the Carneddau Edge

  A wooded gorge behind the town opening onto the northern edge of the Carneddau, with ponies on the open ground above.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Llŷn Peninsula

  Yr Eifl from Trefor

  Straight up the highest of the three peaks from sea level, past a granite quarry that shipped setts to cities across Britain.

  3.7 mi2 hr 20 Demanding
• Llŷn Peninsula

  Criccieth Castle and the Shore

  A Welsh castle on a headland between two beaches, with the whole sweep of Cardigan Bay and Eryri behind it.

  3.4 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Llŷn Peninsula

  Pwllheli Harbour and Beach

  Level walking round a working harbour and along the promenade, with the Llŷn hills behind and the whole of Cardigan Bay in front.

  3.7 mi1 hr 55 Easy
• Llŷn Peninsula

  Porthor and the Whistling Sands

  Beach whose sand squeaks underfoot, with coast path north over headlands towards Porth Iago and some of the emptiest coast on the Llŷn.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Moderate
• Anglesey

  Newborough Forest and the Red Squirrels

  Level forest tracks through the pines behind the dunes, in one of the strongholds of the red squirrel in Wales.

  3.1 mi1 hr 40 Easy
• Anglesey

  Penmon Point

  The eastern tip of Anglesey, with a black and white lighthouse on the rocks, Puffin Island offshore and seals in the sound.

  2.5 mi1 hr 25 Easy
• Anglesey

  Red Wharf Bay

  Vast tidal bay that empties to sand for a mile at low water, with a coast path round the headland and two good pubs at the end.

  4.3 mi2 hr 20 Moderate
• Anglesey

  Holyhead Mountain and Ty Mawr

  The highest point on Anglesey, all of 220 metres, with a hillfort on top and a settlement of twenty stone huts at its foot.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Anglesey

  Parys Mountain

  Abandoned copper mine that looks like the surface of another planet, all orange and purple rock, and was once the largest copper mine in the world.

  2.5 mi1 hr 30 Moderate
• Eryri: Ogwen and the Carneddau

  Cwm Idwal Nature Trail

  The short version: up the made path to the lake outflow and back, which gets you into the cwm and its view for about an hour of easy walking.

  2.2 mi1 hr 15 Moderate
• Eryri: Yr Wyddfa and Llanberis

  Llyn Dinas and Dinas Emrys

  Round the lake and up the wooded knoll where Merlin is said to have seen two dragons fighting under the ground.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Llŷn Peninsula

  Mynydd Rhiw and Plas yn Rhiw

  Manor house with gardens above Hell’s Mouth, and a hill behind it with a Neolithic axe factory on the summit.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Eryri: Ffestiniog and the Moelwynion

  Dolwyddelan Castle

  Square Welsh keep on a rock ridge in the Lledr valley, built by the princes of Gwynedd rather than the English, with Moel Siabod behind it.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Eryri: Ffestiniog and the Moelwynion

  Rhaeadr y Cwm

  Long cascade dropping down the side of the Cynfal valley, seen from the road above and reached by a moorland path.

  2.8 mi1 hr 40 Moderate
• Eryri: Ffestiniog and the Moelwynion

  Tomen y Mur

  A Roman fort with an amphitheatre and a Norman motte planted inside it, on open moorland with almost nothing else around.

  2.5 mi1 hr 25 Moderate
• Berwyn and Lake Vyrnwy

  Llanuwchllyn and Bala Lake

  The quiet end of the largest natural lake in Wales, with the narrow gauge railway running along the shore and the Aran ridge above.

  4.3 mi2 hr 20 Moderate
• Berwyn and Lake Vyrnwy

  Aran Fawddwy

  The highest mountain in Wales outside Eryri’s northern ranges, on a long ridge with crags on the eastern side and hardly anyone about.

  8.1 mi5 hr 30 Strenuous
• Dyfi Valley and Machynlleth

  Dinas Mawddwy

  Wooded hills and riverside around a village at the foot of the Bwlch y Groes, once notorious for a gang of red-haired bandits.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Moderate
• Dyfi Valley and Machynlleth

  Corris and the Dyfi Forest

  Forest tracks above a slate village, climbing past quarry workings to viewpoints over the Dulas valley.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Demanding
• Upper Wye Valley

  Abergwesyn Common

  Open hill country on National Trust common land, with drovers’ routes crossing it and one of the emptiest landscapes in southern Britain.

  5.0 mi2 hr 50 Demanding
• Upper Wye Valley

  Rhandirmwyn and the Tywi

  Old lead mining country in the upper Tywi valley, with wooded hills, a village pub and the river running below.

  4.3 mi2 hr 30 Demanding
• North Pembrokeshire Coast

  Carn Llidi

  The rocky hill behind Whitesands, 181 metres of it, with burial chambers on the slopes and a view over the whole of St Brides Bay.

  3.1 mi1 hr 55 Moderate
• North Pembrokeshire Coast

  Porthgain and the Quarry Coast

  An industrial harbour with brick hoppers still standing on the quay, linked to the blue lagoon by coast path and returned by inland tracks.

  4.3 mi2 hr 30 Moderate
• North Pembrokeshire Coast

  Dinas Island

  Not an island but a headland cut off by a meltwater channel, with a climb to Pen y Fan and a ruined church at the eastern end.

  3.1 mi1 hr 55 Demanding
• South Pembrokeshire Coast

  Pembroke Castle and the Mill Pond

  Circuit of the tidal mill pond below one of the largest castles in Wales, with herons and kingfishers on the water.

  3.1 mi1 hr 40 Easy
• South Pembrokeshire Coast

  The Coal Tramway Tunnels

  Level path along the shore through three tunnels cut for a coal tramway, linking Saundersfoot to Wiseman’s Bridge.

  3.1 mi1 hr 40 Easy
• South Pembrokeshire Coast

  Colby Woodland and Amroth Beach

  Sheltered valley garden running down towards the sea, with woodland walks above and the eastern end of the coast path below.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate
• Preseli Hills

  Rosebush Quarry and Foel Cwmcerwyn

  Abandoned slate quarry below the highest point in Pembrokeshire, with a corrugated iron pub at the bottom and open moor above.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Demanding
• Preseli Hills

  Pontfaen Woods

  Ancient oak woodland on the steep sides of the Gwaun valley, with a small church, mossy boulders and very few people.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Ceredigion Coast

  Llangrannog to Penbryn

  Switchback stretch of the Ceredigion coast path between two beaches, steep and constant but with the best cliff scenery on this coast.

  4.3 mi2 hr 40 Demanding
• Ceredigion Coast

  Aberystwyth to Borth

  The full cliff section between two towns, one of the harder days on the Wales Coast Path, with five hundred metres of climbing packed into seven miles.

  6.8 mi4 hr Strenuous
• Ceredigion Coast

  Cwmtydu and the Seal Coves

  Shingle cove with a limekiln, and cliff path in both directions where grey seals pup in the coves below in autumn.

  3.1 mi1 hr 55 Demanding
• Ceredigion Coast

  Llanerchaeron

  Complete Georgian estate with its home farm, walled gardens and service courtyard all intact, and walks along the Aeron below it.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Easy
• Teifi Valley

  Newcastle Emlyn

  Castle on a loop of the Teifi, with riverside paths and the last dragon in Wales reputedly killed on the bridge.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate

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