Around Dinas Head
Our view
From the car park, make your way to the beach and bear right and then immediately right again, through a gate, to gain a well-surfaced path that follows the floor of Cwm Dewi. This wheelchair-friendly track is very popular so you’ll probably meet other walkers as you pass the marshy ground to the right. These marshes are important breeding grounds for several butterflies, such as tortoiseshells, peacocks, common blues and orange-tips. The path leads to a gate that in turn leads you through a caravan site and into the Cwm-yr-Eglwys car park. Turn left in the car park and follow a narrow path, which heads out towards the beach.
Keep the ruins to your right and wander along the lane to a coast path waymarker on the right. Follow this steeply up steps to Aber Pig-y-Baw. The path emerges from the bushes and continues to cut easily around the hillside before steepening as it approaches the obvious sea stack of Needle Rock. Ignore the footpath off to the left before this. This is a fine nesting site for a variety of seabirds and it appears positively congested in late spring and early summer. Steps lead up the hillside to a gate from here and then the path continues to climb for over half a mile (800m) to the trig point that marks the top of the headland. This is a wonderfully lofty viewpoint and it is possible to scramble down a little way to the north if you fancy a sheltered rest stop.
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