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Where to see Red Squirrels on the Wales Coast Path

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Fascinating Facts about the Wales Coast Path

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Aberdyfi on the Snowdonia coast - part of the Wales Wales Coast Path

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Pennal to Tywyn walk, Snowdonia Coast

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Wild coasts

A few hardy souls have traversed the entire 870 miles non-stop. But most people tend to walk and savour this amazing coastal path in sections — bit by bit — in half day walks, day walks, on weekends and holidays

Beginning on the Dee estuary near Chester, the long distance Wales Coast Path traces the North Wales Coast, passing ancient Conwy Castle and the spectacular Great Orme with its trams and feral goats, to run along the Menai Strait.

Having circled the lovely Isle of Anglesey, the Path skips past Caernarfon Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site, to round the remote Llŷn Peninsula with sacred Bardsey Island (‘Island of 20,000 saints’) at its tip. From Porthmadog, the Wales Coast Path pushes south, past the Italianate fantasy village of Portmeirion, along the coastal fringe of the mountainous Snowdonia National Park and on through Ceredigion and the long sweep of Cardigan Bay.

On around Wales

The Wales Coast Path then rounds Pembrokeshire — Britain’s only coastal National Park — on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. Striding through Carmarthenshire, the Welsh coastal path loops around the Gower Peninsula into Swansea Bay.

Beyond the photogenic Glamorgan Heritage Coast, the Path runs on to Cardiff, proud capital of Wales. From there, it’s only a short hike down the Severn estuary to Chepstow on the Welsh-English border.

Ready to walk? Along the way you’ll experience the very best of Wales: stunning scenery, stirring history, ancient Welsh culture and language, and wildlife in abundance. If you tackle only one big walk in your life, make it this one.

It really is unmissable.