Snowdon Mountain is the 2nd highest mountain in the British Isles. Snowdon Mountain is 3560 feet hight.It is fashionable to decry Snowdon and moan about the café and the masses of tourists on the summit. In fact, Snowdon rates amongst the most beautiful mountains in the world. Whichever direction you approach it from the size and grandeur impresses. Its starfish shape radiates six magnificent ridges each with their own special and individual characters. The deep cwmoedd (glaciated valleys) range from the easily accessible to hanging valleys only reached by complicated scrambling.
This mountain has everything from the rarest flowers and insects to ruined mines, from fascinating volcanic rock formations to fossils on the summit. Whether your interest is in challenging ascents, emotive photographs, Arthurian legends, or in studying humanity in every form, the mountain's got something for you!
The Summit is owned by the National Park but leased to the Snowdon Mountain Railway who operate the café at the summit normally open from Whitsun (late May bank holiday until October half term)
Where is Mount Snowdon?
View map of Snowdonia
Surrounding Villages and car parks
The main access points to the range are: from Llanberis on the A4086, Pen y Pass at the top of the Llanberis Pass, on the Beddgelert Road the A498 at Bethania and on the A4085 at Rhyd Ddu and the Snowdon Ranger. There are bus services from Betws y Coed, Llanberis, Bangor and Caernarfon and a steam train from Caernarfon. In Summer months a regular "Snowdon Sherpa" goes around the mountain meaning that you do not need to start and end at the same place.
Photos of Snowdonia
Snowdonia National Park Authority
Walking guide to Snowdonia
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