Celebrating National Parks Week
Published on 2023-04-16
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By Boo@Trefeddian
16-24 April 2023
This week we celebrate everything wonderful about Eryri...
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Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park covers 827 square miles. ‘Eryri’, the Welsh name for the national park, is Wales’s largest national park
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It has been recognised as a National Park is since 1951
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The National Park covers 11,000 hectares of woodland, 37 miles of coastline, has 1497 miles of routes to explore and has nearly 4 million visitors each year
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There is a total of 9 mountain ranges in Eryri. Snowdon is the highest in the range and also the highest in Wales at 3560ft (1090m)
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Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park is home to Wales’s largest lake, Bala Lake, which covers 1.87 square miles
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26,000 people live within the Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park, of whom 58% are Welsh speakers
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Crib Goch is the wettest spot in Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park with an average rainfall of 4,473mm each year