Coed y Brenin, Snowdonia, the 'Forest of the King', is an exceptional forest haven of over 21,000 acres of outdoor activity and nature. Grab your mountain bikes or walking boots for some outstanding world-class trails.
Visitor Centre
The visitor centre is where the fun begins; the set-up for Coed y Brenin is perfect. This starting point is the ideal location to whet your whistle while you contemplate the options for all your treks, whether by foot or by mountain bike.
Here you will find a cafe, generous parking space, a riverside picnic area, children’s adventure play area, toilets, bike hire and bike wash and a shop. All trails begin and lead back to the visitor centre. From the novice to the experienced, the fullest possible range of walks and biking trails are open to all from here.
You can take a casual stroll with the family along the beautiful river Afon Eden. Or find out why Coed y Brenin Forest is celebrated for offering one of the best mountain biking experiences in Europe. The wide varieties of trails pursue beautiful river carved valleys, untamed hilltops, wild forest roads and exhilarating track descents.
Mountain Biking
Worshipped by those ‘who know’, Coed-y-Brenin forest is the mountain biker’s seventh heaven. Networks of all weather, hand-built, single and dual slalom course tracks and technical boneshakers will wake the child in you. All this topped with the drama of Southern Snowdonia’s mountain views for you to gaze in wonder while you loosen up and chill-out between rides.
Mountain bikers are positively encouraged here as more regions of the forest are opened up. Stay at the beach resort of nearby Barmouth in order to sample the full range of tracks that are as bracing as the mountain air; the 12km Fun route, the famous 'Red Bull' and 'MBR' trails through to the challenging 38km technical single track of the Karrimor loop.
Days of incredible riding are available here for everyone, from families to the World-class racers who regularly train here. Its hard to believe that things can get better, but plans have been made to make Coed-y-Brenin a centre of world class mountain biking excellence.
Archaeology
The Coed-y-Brenin geology is as rich as the landscape is beautiful. Snowdonia National Park have successfully located and excavated the remains of several bloomery mounds and iron-working hearths around Coed y Brenin.
Discoveries revealed that Bog iron began to be worked here during the medieval period. Indeed, it is around this period that other mineral deposits seem to have been first exploited.
In more recent times, during the 19th Century the area was mined for more exotic metals such as copper, lead, zinc and even gold. Pant Llwyfog gold mine still holds the evidence today in its outcrops of quartz from which the gold was extracted.
Snowdonia region
Snowdonia is packed full of activities and attractions too numerous mention. The only way to discover them for yourself is to visit some of the beautiful villages and mountains throughout the region.
Shops situated throughout Snowdonia offer mementos of your unforgettable visit in the form of local crafts and foods such as welsh lamb and cheese.
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