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Eryri National Park

📷 David Iliff Derivative work by Globe-trotter · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Wales’s mountain heart: Yr Wyddfa, slate villages and narrow-gauge railways, with the sea never far.

Eryri, to give it its Welsh name, is a compact range of glacier-cut valleys and rock that has trained mountaineers for a century — the 1953 Everest team practised on Tryfan. Yr Wyddfa can be walked by six routes or ridden up by rack railway, the slate landscape around Blaenau Ffestiniog is UNESCO-listed and now carries zip lines and underground trampolines, and Portmeirion sits on the estuary being cheerfully un-Welsh. The coast at Harlech and Barmouth is twenty minutes from the summits.

Known for

  • Camping
  • Mountain biking
  • Hiking
  • Mountains
Travel guide on Wikivoyage ↗

Best time to visit

The best months for Eryri National Park are May, June, July and September.

Suggested route

7 nights across 3 stops. Jourimo adjusts it to the length of your trip.

  1. 1Betws-y-Coed · 3 nights
  2. 2Llanberis · 2 nights
  3. 3Dolgellau · 2 nights