Dark Skies Reserve at Brecon Beacons National Park

The Brecon Beacons National Park has some of the highest quality dark skies in the whole of the UK, making it the perfect destination for stargazers and you'll find loads of events and great places to enjoy stargazing.

On a clear night in the Brecon Beacons, you can see the Milky Way, major constellations, bright nebula and even meteor showers. It’s enough to make anyone starry eyed and definitely something worth shouting about.

In 2012, the Brecon Beacons National Park teamed up with the Brecon Beacons Park Society to apply to the International Dark Sky Association to make the entire National Park an International Dark Sky Reserve. It was just the fifth destination in the world and the first in Wales to be accredited..

You would be hard pressed to find a community which goes to such great lengths to ensure light pollution is reduced. The hard work is obviously paying off – on a clear night you can see just about everything from anywhere" Ordnance Survey 2015

Through this highly prestigious status, the hope is to preserve our magical night skies for future generations and help reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the Park, and to help protect a whole host of nocturnal creatures that need dark nights to forage, hunt and migrate.