Celebrating National Parks Week

Published on 2023-04-16 / By Boo@Trefeddian

16-24 April 2023

Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park covers 827 square miles. ‘Eryri’, the Welsh name for the national park, is Wales’s largest national park
It has been recognised as a National Park is since 1951
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
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)
Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park is home to Wales’s largest lake, Bala Lake, which covers 1.87 square miles
26,000 people live within the Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park, of whom 58% are Welsh speakers
Crib Goch is the wettest spot in Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park with an average rainfall of 4,473mm each year