Pen y Gaer, Snowdonia National Park

Name: Pen y Gaer
Address: Snowdonia National Park, United Kingdom

#127 among attractions in Snowdonia National Park

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Pen y Gaer is the location of a Bronze Age and Iron Age hillfort near the village of Llanbedr-y-Cennin in the Conwy valley, Wales. ()

Elevation: 1263 ftProminence: 118 ftCoordinates: 53°12'22"N, 3°52'22"W

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Snowdonia National Park United Kingdom

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Pen y Gaer – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bodnant Garden, Canovium, Coedty Reservoir, Foel-fras.

3.6 miNE
Botanical garden, Garden, Park
Bodnant Garden, Conwy
93 min walk • Bodnant Garden is a National Trust property near Tal-y-Cafn, Conwy, Wales, overlooking the Conwy Valley towards the Carneddau mountains. Founded in 1874 and developed by five generations of one family, it was given to the National Trust in 1949.
1.7 miNE
Forts and castles
Canovium
45 min walk • Canovium was a fort in the Roman province of Britannia. Its site is located at Caerhun in the Conwy valley, in the county borough of Conwy, in North Wales.
1.7 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Coedty Reservoir, Snowdonia National Park
44 min walk • Coedty Reservoir is a reservoir in Snowdonia, North Wales. It is fed by the waters of Afon Porth-llwyd which flows from Llyn Eigiau. The reservoir lies at a height of 900 feet, and measures some 12 acres in size. It contains brown trout.
3.4 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Foel-fras, Snowdonia National Park
87 min walk • Foel-fras is a mountain in the Carneddau range, about 10 km east of Bethesda in North Wales. It lies on the border between the counties of Gwynedd and Conwy. With a summit elevation of 944 m it is officially the eleventh-highest summit in Wales.
1.7 miSE
Water park, Surfing, Amusement park
Adventure Parc Snowdonia
44 min walk • Adventure Parc Snowdonia, formerly Surf Snowdonia is an adventure park and tourist attraction, incorporating an artificial wave pool, at Dolgarrog in the Conwy valley, north Wales, owned by Conwy Adventure Leisure Ltd. It is the world's first commercial artificial surfing lake.
3.5 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Llyn Dulyn, Snowdonia National Park
90 min walk • Llyn Dulyn is a lake on the edge of the Carneddau range of mountains in Snowdonia, North Wales. The lake is 33 acres in extent and 189 feet deep. Less than a kilometre to its south lies the smaller Llyn Melynllyn.
2.6 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Drum, Snowdonia National Park
66 min walk • Drum is a summit in the Carneddau mountains in north Wales, 2 km north-east of Foel-fras. It is 771 m high. It is also known as Carnedd Penyborth-Goch.
2.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Tal y Fan, Snowdonia National Park
63 min walk • Tal y Fan is an outlying peak of the Carneddau mountains in North Wales. It is one of the four Marilyns that make up the Carneddau, the others being Carnedd Llywelyn, Pen Llithrig y Wrach and Creigiau Gleision.
3.2 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Llyn Eigiau, Snowdonia National Park
82 min walk • Llyn Eigiau is a lake on the edge of the Carneddau range of mountains in Snowdonia, Conwy, Wales. The name Eigiau is thought to refer to the shoals of fish which once lived here. Early maps refer to it as Llynyga.
2.4 miSE
Rock
Nod Glas Formation, Snowdonia National Park
62 min walk • The Nod Glas Formation is an Ordovician lithostratigraphic group in Mid Wales. The rock of the formation is made up of pyritous, graptolitic mudstone that is generally black in colour. It weathers to a soft, very well cleaved and coal-like material.
3.4 miSE
Monastery
Aberconwy Abbey, Conwy
87 min walk • Aberconwy Abbey was a Cistercian foundation at Conwy, later transferred to Maenan near Llanrwst, and in the 13th century was the most important abbey in the north of Wales.