Things to Do
Walking & cycling on Anglesey
The 125-mile Anglesey Coastal Path, forest cycle trails at Newborough, and Holy Mountain routes — walking and cycling guide for Ynys Môn.
Walking Holyhead, Holy Island
Holyhead Mountain Circular Walk
The circular walk from Holyhead town over Holy Mountain (Mynydd Twr, 220 metres) and back via the coastal path is one of the most rewarding short hikes in North Wales — a 4-mile loop with 360-degree views stretching from Snowdonia to the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland on clear days.
Walking Holyhead, Holy Island
Breakwater Country Park
Set on the northern tip of Holy Island around the base of the world's longest breakwater (2.
Walking Rhoscolyn, Holy Island
Rhoscolyn Coastal Walk
The 4-mile headland loop from Rhoscolyn village on the southern tip of Holy Island follows the Anglesey Coastal Path around a dramatic sequence of quartzite sea cliffs, natural rock arches — most famously the Bwa Du (Black Arch) and the pale Bwa Gwyn (White Arch) — sheltered coves, and wild cliff-top heathland before returning through farmland past the 6th-century holy well of St Gwenfaen, which local tradition held could cure mental illness through ritual offerings of white quartz pebbles.
Walking Penmon, Anglesey
Penmon Point Coastal Walk
The coastal walk from Penmon Priory to Black Point lighthouse and back is four miles of easy path along the northeast tip of Anglesey, with Puffin Island (Ynys Seiriol) lying just 500 metres offshore throughout and grey seals hauled out on the lower rocks year-round.
Walking Newborough, Anglesey
Newborough Forest & Beach Loop
A 5-mile circular walk through Newborough Forest and back along Newborough Beach combines Corsican pine forest, red squirrel habitat, sand dunes, and one of Wales' finest beaches in a single well-paced loop.
Walking Newborough, Anglesey
Llanddwyn Island Walk
The walk from Newborough Beach across the dunes and along the shore to Ynys Llanddwyn — a narrow tidal promontory jutting into Caernarfon Bay — takes in one of Wales's most romantic landscapes, combining white sand, Corsican pine forest, and a ruined 16th-century church dedicated to St Dwynwen, Wales's patron saint of lovers whose feast day falls on 25 January.
Walking Near Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey
Mynydd Bodafon Walk
Mynydd Bodafon (178 metres) is Anglesey's highest inland summit — a heather-and-gorse moorland ridge of ancient Precambrian quartzite rising abruptly from the flat farmland of the east coast, with views from the trig point that stretch to the full Snowdonia skyline, the Llŷn Peninsula, and on exceptionally clear days the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland.
Walking Moelfre, Anglesey
Moelfre Coastal Walk
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Walking Near Amlwch, Anglesey
Parys Mountain
The summit plateau of Parys Mountain (146 metres) above Amlwch presents a landscape so extraordinary it was used as a stand-in for Mars in early film productions — a post-industrial moonscape of ochre, rust-red, violet and acid-green spoil heaps pocked with mineral-stained pools, the skeletal remains of an 18th-century windmill, and the sheer walls of the Great Opencast, an excavation so vast it is visible from the main road miles away.