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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 21:27, 29 October 2010: 1,025 × 1,305 (1.28 MB): Nilfanion {{Information |Description=Map of Snowdonia National Park, UK with the following information shown: *National Park boundary *Administrative borders *Coastline, lakes and rivers *Roads and railways *Urban areas Equirectangular map projecti
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The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" image1 = Snowdonia National Park UK relief location map.png An alternative map image, usually a relief map, which can be displayed via the relief or AlternativeMap parameters; top = 53.35 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 52.5 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal ...
Before the boundaries of the national park were designated, "Snowdonia" was generally used to refer to a smaller upland area of northern Gwynedd centred on the Snowdon massif. The national park covers an area more than twice that size, extending south into the Meirionnydd area. This difference is apparent in books published before 1951.
Coed y Brenin (Welsh for King's Forest) is a forest in the Snowdonia National Park, North Wales near Dolgellau at grid reference. It is popular for its mountain bike trails and hiking paths. It has several man-made mountain bike singletrack courses in a woodland setting, varying in length from 12 to 38 km (7 to 23 mi), and one dual slalom course.
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Wales' National Slate Museum was established at Llanberis in 1972 as the North Wales Quarrying Museum. [23] An interpretive facility was developed at Ogwen Cottage in 2013 [24] by the Snowdonia National Park Authority focussing on Darwin's journey through Snowdonia in 1831 and serving as an introduction to the area's geology. [25]
A third of the county is within the Snowdonia National Park. There are a total of 161 scheduled monuments in the county. 106 of these are Prehistoric , including at least six neolithic sites. Like much of Wales, there are large numbers of Bronze Age sites, particularly burial mounds, and some 40 Iron Age sites including hillforts and hut groups.