Graig Goch, Snowdonia National Park

Name: Graig Goch
Address: Snowdonia National Park, United Kingdom

#110 among attractions in Snowdonia National Park

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Graig Goch is a 586m high hill in the Gwynedd area in Wales and lying within Snowdonia National Park. The hill falls within the communities of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant and Corris, the summit being located in the former. The hill takes the form of a NE-SW aligned ridge with a broad top which rise to subsidiary tops either side of the main summit. These are the 540m+ top of Mynydd Cedris and the 504m top of Mynydd Rugog. The hill’s most notable feature is the large cliff which stretches the length of its northwestern face overlooking Tal-y-llyn, in part a major rock-slope failure. ()

Elevation: 1923 ftCoordinates: 52°39'30"N, 3°54'9"W

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Graig Goch – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: MOMA, Cadair Idris, Hughes Memorial, Castell y Bere.

5.1 miSE
Theater, Art museum, Museum
MOMA, Machynlleth
129 min walk • MOMA Machynlleth or Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth is an arts centre and gallery adjacent to Y Tabernacl in Machynlleth, Powys, Wales. The Tabernacle was converted in the mid-1980s from a Wesleyan chapel into a centre for the performing arts. Since then the Museum of Modern Art has grown up alongside it, with six exhibition spaces.
2.9 miN
Natural attraction, Park, Mountain
Cadair Idris, Dolgellau
73 min walk • Cader Idris is a mountain in the historic county of Meirionnydd, Wales. It lies at the southern end of the Snowdonia National Park near the town of Dolgellau.
2.5 miE
Memorial
Hughes Memorial, Corris
65 min walk • The Hughes Memorial in Corris is a memorial obelisk commemorating Alfred W Hughes, who served as a surgeon in the Second Boer War. He died of fever in South Africa in 1900. In 2013, Professor Chris Williams of Swansea University described it as one of the most important objects in Welsh history.
2.9 miW
Ruins, Forts and castles
Castell y Bere, Tywyn
74 min walk • Castell y Bere is a Welsh castle near Llanfihangel-y-pennant in Gwynedd, Wales. Constructed by Llywelyn the Great in the 1220s, the stone castle was intended to maintain his authority over the local people and to defend the south-west part of the princedom of Gwynedd.
2.2 miE
Classes and workshops, Arts and crafts
Corris Craft Centre, Corris
57 min walk • Corris Craft Centre is a craft and leisure complex in Corris, on the A487 near Machynlleth, mid-Wales. It is sometimes referred to as King Arthur's Labyrinth, one of the attractions on the site. Celebrating 40 years in 2022.
3.6 miSE
Museum
Centre for Alternative Technology, Snowdonia National Park
92 min walk • The Centre for Alternative Technology is an eco-centre in Powys, mid-Wales, dedicated to demonstrating and teaching sustainable development. CAT, despite its name, no longer concentrates its efforts exclusively on alternative technology, but provides information on all aspects of sustainable living.
4 miNE
Lake
Llyn y Tri Greyenyn, Dolgellau
102 min walk • Llyn y Tri Greyenyn was a small lake not far from Cadair Idris in the old parish of Tal-y-llyn, Merionethshire in north Wales. It was located at the head of the valley of Cwm Rhwyddfor on the pass called Bwlch Llyn Bach between Minffordd and Cross Foxes; Llyn y Tri Greyenyn is the 'llyn bach’’ in the pass’s name.
2.3 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Craig Cwm Amarch, Snowdonia National Park
60 min walk • Craig Cwm Amarch is not synonymous with Craig y Cau but names the headwall of Cwm Amarch on Cadair Idris in the Snowdonia National Park, in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. There seems to be some confusion over naming by people who are not local.
3.7 miNE
Mountain
Mynydd Cambergi, Corris
95 min walk • Mynydd Cambergi or Mynydd Cam-bergi is a mountain in southern Snowdonia, Wales. It is a summit on a long ridge between Mynydd y Waun to the north and Foel Grochan to the east.
2.4 miE
Rock
Broad Vein Mudstone Formation, Corris
62 min walk • The Broad Vein Mudstone Formation is an Ordovician lithostratigraphic group in Mid Wales. The rock of the formation is silty mudstone, intensely bioturbated in places. It varies in colour from a pale to a medium blue. This formation has been commercially quarried as slate in several locations along its length.
1 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Tal-y-llyn Lake, Snowdonia National Park
25 min walk • Tal-y-llyn Lake, also known as Talyllyn Lake and Llyn Myngul, is a large glacial ribbon lake in Gwynedd, North Wales. It is formed by a post-glacial massive landslip damming up the lake within the glaciated valley. The hamlet of Talyllyn lies at the west end of the lake.