Home Our Products - Browse and Buy Online Advice Centre Registration Plates How to Guides Hints & Tips Features Store Services About Us Contact Us Downloads Store Locator useful links view trail guides www.sustrans.co.uk Welsh National Route page 2 of 3 Another option would be to miss out the descent into Arthog and go along the road past lakes Cregennan and Gwernan, down into Dolgellau then into Barmouth along the estuary-side path. The views of the Cadair Idris range are superb. This will add a good hour to the journey. If taking the train back to M achynlleth is simply too easy for you, then you can try your hand at the even more challenging return route. It starts out easily enough as you follow the line of the old railway for seven miles or so along the south side of the M awddach Estuary. Emerging from Dolgellau, you pick up the old coach road at Tabor which has some really challenging gradients. Descend steeply on tarmac to Aberllefenni from where you are on easier minor roads back to M achynlleth. Route guide: 1) M achynlleth: now a small attractive market town, this could have been chosen as the nation's capital in the 1950s. It has strong links with historic Welsh nationalism as it was here in the fifteenth century that rebel Owain Glyndwr chose to establish his embryonic Welsh parliament. You can learn more about him at Parliament House on the main street, Heol M aengwyn. The centrepiece is the ornate clocktower. 2) Tywyn: pleasant seaside resort. Home of Talyllyn Narrow Gauge Railway. 3) Cadair Idris: the dominant and most dramatic peak in the southern area of Snowdonia National Park , which you are within for almost the whole of your ride. It peaks at 2,930 feet but is surrounded by four smaller peaks and spectacular glacier-gouged cliffs which drop to cool, clear lakes. back more halfordscompany.com | terms of use | terms & conditions of sale | privacy Specialised Mountain Bikes at Halfords Online Raliegh Bikes & Cheap Mountain Bikes at Halfords Website, UK We The People Bikes • S&M Bikes • Dimondback Bikes • Metal Bikes • Supermoto Bikes • Seven Bicycles • Bycicle • Halfords com • Action Bikes London • Bsa Bicycles • Evans Bicycles UK • Off Road Motor Bikes • Best Bikes • Giant Road Bikes • Specialised Mountain Bikes • Klein Bikes • Trails Bikes • Halfords Opening Hours • Halfords Motor • Single Speed Bikes • Sintesi Bikes • Mens Bicycles • Dna Trials Bikes • Honda Motor Bikes • Second Hand Bikes UK •