Total Distance: 10 Miles
Total Ascent/Descent: 2280ft
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| Today's Route Map traveling clockwise, click to enlarge. |
This is a stretching walk of about 4¾ hours (excluding
stops) taking in the Conwy valley, the moorlands forming the NE end of the
Carneddau range and finally Conwy mountain.
The effort is rewarded with stunning river, hill, mountain and coastal
scenery (in good weather!) and at the end there are many good pubs and
tea-houses in Conwy for immediate refreshment.
From the car park we get our circulation going
straightaway with a short but stiff climb across farmland and through woods
onto Bryn Iocyn. (At the top of the hill
see if you can spot the basalt dyke between the trig point and the radio mast.) Then downhill for a while and through a caravan
park: road reconstruction works are
going on here so please watch out for moving plant. We cross the Afon Gyffin in Henryd village
and then start our gradual climb onto the moors, passing through Parc Mawr
nature reserve and calling at the chapel and holy well of Saint Celynin. Reaching the crest of the moors we turn
sea-ward again and have an easy jaunt down to the Sychnant Pass, once the only
road from Conwy to NW Wales. A final
pull over the ancient volcano of Conwy Mountain (where we pass through Neolithic
hut circles and an Iron Age hill-fort) brings us back into Conwy.
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