Locations

Llyn Tegid is Wales largest natural lake, covering 1.75 square miles

Taking visitors from Fairbourne to the shores of the Mawddach Estuary for a hundred years.

Tanygrisiau is a stop on the Ffestiniog Railway. It is situated on the southern side of the Moelwyn mountain range, which shelters the village from northerly winds.

The UKs longest heritage railway. Running 25 miles from Porthmadog to Caernarfon.

The Snowdonia National Park covers 823 square miles and is the largest and earliest of the three National Parks of Wales.

Dduallt (meaning “Black Wooded Slope”) is the most remote station on the Ffestiniog Railway as it can only be reached by public footpaths.

Dolgellau is a good base for visiting the heritage train lines with quite a few of them less than a 40-minute drive away.

Beddgelert’s fame and popularity (apart from it’s beautiful location) is a small mound in the village called “Gelert’s Grave“.

Cwmorthin is a short trek away from the station at Tanygrisiau, but well worth a visit. There are several places to park at Tanygrisiau; there is a large car park as you drive towards the station, a small station car park, one by the popular Café and one at the quarry entrance. What’s more, they are all free. Tanygrisiau is also a station on the Ffestiniog Railway, near Blaenau Ffestiniog.

A family-run, two AA rosette-winning home-from-home and the only hotel in Porthmadog.