Adventure at
Every Step
Fill your lungs with fresh air. Feel the outdoors of Southern Snowdonia. Experience dark skies, mountain ranges, sweeping coastlines, legends and history.
With its landscape completely changing each season, Snowdonia’s rivers, forests, valleys and lakes offer differential activities all year round. With any type of outdoor pursuit available, explore what you want, when you want.
Starting at Coed-y-Brenin Visitor Centre near Dolgellau, getting out and about is effortless – get a hold of the Welsh language, take your pick between adrenaline, relaxation, culture and hospitality.



FIND PLACES TO STAY IN SOUTHERN SNOWDONIA

UNESCO DYFI BIOSPHERE
UNESCO has designated the area in and around the Dyfi estuary as an internationally recognised Biosphere Reserve.
A very special place and one of only six Biosphere Reserves in the UK, experience how the relationship between man and nature can be improved, benefiting the area and it's communities in the process.

PORTMEIRION VILLAGE
Designed by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis in 1925, Portmerion was built in imitation of a rustic Italian village, to demonstrate how a naturally beautiful place could be developed without spoiling it.
Sitting at the feet of Snowdonia, it makes for a charming dislocation that is truly unique. Portmeirion's place in popular culture has been set in stone as a result.

CADAIR IDRIS
Cadair Idris, which means 'Chair of Idris' from the giant warrior poet of Welsh legend, is a spectacular mountain reserve in Southern Snowdonia of over 450 hectares of breathtaking landscape, rugged summits, glacial lakes and a mossy wooded gorge.
The distinctive shape of the mountain's peaks can be seen for miles around, from the coastlines at Tywyn and Barmouth and high over the market town of Dolgellau.
Home to some of the most famous mountain ranges in Britain, Snowdonia National Park acquired its status in 1951, making it the second oldest outdoor space protected by the state in Britain.
Windswept peaks of Mount Snowdown, shores of Lake Bala - the Snowdonia National Park is as diverse as it gets. Aside from the landscapes, its people aren’t bad either – sharing their charming towns, villages and localities with all. We know you’ll love it.
It’s easy to mistake this part of the world for the Mediterranean, especially when one of its villages was expressly designed to imitate one. Portmeirion Village was built as an impression of a rustic Italian village, designed by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis in 1925. Its striking appearance now rooted in popular culture.
Since the iconic sixties spy drama, The Prisoner used the unassuming setting, an avalanche of well-known programmes and idols have used the village as inspiration – from Jools Holland and Paul McCartney to Steven Fry, Iron Maiden and Top Gear (just naming a few).