Hiking in Snowdonia

The highest mountain in Wales, and the most popular summit in the UK

Go hiking in Snowdonia with curated guides of the best hikes across the region. With over 39 3D trail maps in FATMAP, you can easily discover and navigate the best trails in Snowdonia.

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Hiking Routes in Snowdonia

Glyder Fawr and Glyder Fach

One of Snowdonia's most classic hikes along one of its most scenic ridges

Difficult Hiking

Distance: 8.5 km
Ascent: 766 m
Descent: 766 m

Aberglaslyn Gorge and Cwm Bychan, Snowdonia

This is a circular six mile walk, starting and ending at the little footbridge at Beddgelert.

Easy Hiking

Distance: 6.7 km
Ascent: 301 m
Descent: 300 m

Nantlle Ridge

A grassy stride along elegant curved arêtes, the traverse of the main ridge linking all the summits in the range is a classic Welsh walk, with a rare sense of peace and spacious seaward views.

Severe Hiking

Distance: 8.3 km
Ascent: 632 m
Descent: 606 m

The Welsh 3000s

A good challenge for any fit walker, which also is one of the best walks in Snowdownia.

Extreme Hiking

Distance: 41 km
Ascent: 2.8 km
Descent: 3.7 km

Snowdon's Quiet Side - Cwm Clogwyn Round

Snowdon isn’t short of great walking routes to its crowded summit, but if you think they are all infested with other folk you can think again.

Difficult Hiking

Distance: 15 km
Ascent: 952 m
Descent: 955 m

If it’s a superb walk in relative solitude you’re after then folk in the know will point you at those big old lumps where scenes of genuine grandeur can also be won, but unlike the cheap thrills of their Ogwen brethren, the secrets of the Carneddau must be earned.

Difficult Hiking

Distance: 14 km
Ascent: 950 m
Descent: 948 m

Snowdon Horseshoe including Crib Goch

Perhaps it's only fitting that the highest mountain in Wales boasts the country's greatest all-day scrambly ridge traverse.

Extreme Hiking

Distance: 12 km
Ascent: 1 km
Descent: 1 km

The Round of Marchlyn Mawr

Hideously scarred and cruelly exploited it may well be, but Elidir Fawr is often the choice of the connoisseur when a quick 3000er is the order of the day.

Difficult Hiking

Distance: 6.9 km
Ascent: 621 m
Descent: 397 m

Cnicht - The Welsh Matterhorn

This walk around Cnicht and it aqueous environs is one of the most enjoyable in Snowdonia offering some of the finest views in the national park, a smidgeon of optional scrambling and a tour of the most enchanting llynau imaginable.

Difficult Hiking