In Waterfall Country

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"A low-level walk among riverside scenery with four breathtaking waterfalls."
Walk directions

Cross the road at the entrance to the car park and head down the left-hand of the two paths, waymarked with a yellow arrow. Ignore a right fork marked ‘Access for Cavers’ and follow the main path through a kissing gate and on to the river bank. Now keep the river to your right to follow a rough footpath through a couple more kissing gates to reach a footbridge.

Don’t cross but continue ahead on the main path to climb steeply up to a fence. Stay with the path, with a wooden fence now on your right, for a few paces and you’ll reach a junction of footpaths marked with a large fingerpost. Bear sharp left on to a well-surfaced track, waymarked to Gwaun Hepste, and follow this for a short distance to another junction, where you should turn right (waymarked ‘Sgwd yr Eira’).

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  Terrain  - Riverside paths and forest tracks, some rough sections and steps
  Landscape  - Wooded valleys, fast-flowing rivers, waterfalls
  Dog friendliness  - Rivers too powerful for fetching sticks and care needed near steep drops
  Parking  - Park car park at Porth yr Ogof, near Ystradfellte
  Toilets en route  - At start
About the walk
In a National Park justly renowned for its sweeping, but barren, mountain scenery, lovers of high ground are in danger of completely overlooking one the park’s hidden gems. This is the pocket of dramatic limestone scenery often referred to as Waterfall Country. South of the upland plateaux of...
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The largest unitary authority in Wales, Powys covers an area of approximately 2,000 square miles. Much of that is mountainous because it actually has the lowest population density of all the Welsh counties.
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In Waterfall Country

Recommended by
Our view
"A low-level walk among riverside scenery with four breathtaking waterfalls."
Location
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Additional information
  Terrain - Riverside paths and forest tracks, some rough sections and steps
  Landscape - Wooded valleys, fast-flowing rivers, waterfalls
  Dog friendliness - Rivers too powerful for fetching sticks and care needed near steep drops
  Parking - Park car park at Porth yr Ogof, near Ystradfellte
  Toilets en route - At start
About the walk
In a National Park justly renowned for its sweeping, but barren, mountain scenery, lovers of high ground are in danger of completely overlooking one the park’s hidden gems. This is the pocket of dramatic limestone scenery often referred to as Waterfall Country. South of the upland plateaux of...
Read more
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Powys
The largest unitary authority in Wales, Powys covers an area of approximately 2,000 square miles. Much of that is mountainous because it actually has the lowest population density of all the Welsh counties.