The Elan Valley Dark Sky Team brings the stars to the Elan Valley Visitor Centre with their pop-up planetarium.
Yours to explore
A short 30 minute walk through Penbont Woods to a great view of Pen y garreg Dam.
Follow the green arrows along a flat gravel path suitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs.
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From the information board in the car park, follow the green arrows straight ahead towards the base of the dam.
After 130m, the path splits. Keep following the main track to the left following the green arrows.
After 170m, you’ll have reached the base of the dam. Enjoy the view and turn around the way you came, following the green waymarker arrows back to the car park
Looping to the top of Pen y Garreg Dam and through both sides of Penbont Woods, this walk can be done in either direction in about 45 minutes.
• GO TO ROUTE •A three hour circular walk, one of Elan Valley’s most popular, takes visitors around the Garreg Ddu loop through spectacular woods and fields.
• GO TO ROUTE •A three hour walk from the Visitor Centre to Craig Goch following the line of the old Birmingham Corporation Railway.
• GO TO ROUTE •The Elan Valley Dark Sky Team brings the stars to the Elan Valley Visitor Centre with their pop-up planetarium.
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