Best dog walks Llandovery, Brecon Beacons, Carmarthenshire
We’re spoiled for views and vistas and walking choices, but when it's ground nesting bird season, or there's livestock on the mountains, these are our favourite off-lead dog walks around Llandovery.
Come and stay in our dog friendly holiday cottages
in the Brecon Beacons
Fantastic forest waterfall walk with plenty of plunges for dogs and humans and endless stony trails and paths to get lost on (and most people do). You can extend this walk with a loop beginning from the top of the bridlepath which goes across the very top of the waterfall. You can then then walk across Craig Rhosan to the top gate in Cwm Rhaaadr that brings you back down the scout hut.
Walk length: basically anything you like! 1 hour and 15 to do the basic waterfall loop and about 2 hours to do a full loop over the top of the waterfall.
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Grid ref: SN 765 422.
Gorgeous mixed woodland with lots of species including beech and oak and Douglas fir. A shorter grassy loop or a longer loop on stone tracks and then through woodland of varying ages. Nice pond for a hound dip. You can also do some extensions to this route and take some footpaths and bridleways through fields in a number of directions with smashing views of the Carmarthen Fans.
Length: 30 mins to 1 hour and a quarter or longer if you extend.
Grid ref SN754293
Crychan Forest - Halfway car park
Nice sunny forest mainly conifers with a lot of oak, ash, cedar and Douglas fir plus a perfect stream and pool for dog dipping. Also very horse friendly if that is your bag. Short loop about 40 mins, but you can head into the forest hinterland and get lost for a least a day.
SN 835 330.
Crychan Forest- Esgair Fwyog car park
There’s a few good loops here – some areas of douglas fir but also conifer.There’s an option of staying in those main woodlands, walking down to the valley floor and then back to the car park, about 2 hours. Alternatively you can do a loop up along the byway opposite and finish it off with a tiny amount of road back to the car. It’s not a busy road and there’s some nice views down across the endless misty hills of Carmarthenshire. You can however walk as far or a short as you wish with the full loop being 3 hours.
SN 837 412
Gorgeous place for an evening walk in the golden hour. Lovely views through to the Brecon Beacons or the Carmarthen Fans depending on which bit you choose to walk round. Full circular walk is about six miles. But there are various little routes though which means you walk there and back on the same route, but with views like these it doesn’t matter.
Two parking options one at the reservoir itself LD3 8YF
Or Pont ar Wysg SN 820 272 which is just outside the woodland and takes you to about half way around the reservoir. You can also walk around the Glasfynydd Forest here.
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