Brecon Beacons National Park

The Brecon Beacons National Park offers a consistent character of wave upon wave of open hillside and crystal clear mountain air. The terrain dips, rolls and rises fluidly like a giant green sea. Walking routes in the Brecon Beacons are uncomplicated with wide open spaces and vast skies above, easy to navigate but ruthlessly draining with slow steady climbs that seem endless. The Black Mountains is the first of the four main mountain ranges in the Brecon Beacons, a lofty range of hills along the Welsh/English border. The Brecon Beacons are the heart of the Brecon Beacons national Park and to the west are the moors and plateaux of Fforest Fawr. The loneliest of mountain ranges is at the far west of the Brecon Beacons, Black Mountain; a daunting wilderness for the very brave explorer. In comparison to its northern counterpart, the Snowdonia National Park, the Brecon Beacons is more reliable than the lucky-dip landscape of boulder strewn slopes, jagged pinnacles, boggy moors and woodland valleys. Whilst Mount Snowdon and the Snowdonia National Park may sound like the preferred choice for the more adventurous the Brecon Beacons beholds rarer of treasures; the Welsh waterfalls. The Welsh waterfalls are almost as endless as the mountain ranges and can be found in the ancient woodlands and forest pathways in and around the Brecon Beacons. The experience of walking into, around, up and below, inside and outside of a Welsh waterfall is a definite rival to the many peaks and cwms of Mount Snowdon.