🌳 Outdoor🆓 Free entry🌲 Woodland🐐 AnimalsSeasonal opening
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Car park at Welcome Gateway entrance off A470
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Gilfach is a spectacular nature reserve tucked away in the Marteg Valley in the heart of rural Mid Wales. For centuries a working hill farm, it now offers way-marked trails through 166 hectares of grassland, woodland, wetlands, ponds, and heathland. Home to pied flycatchers, red kites, dippers, redstarts, leaping salmon, and over a quarter of all lichen species found in Wales. The Byre visitor centre offers refreshments and information. Features 55 breeding birds, 6 species of bat, and 413 species of lichen.
Best time to visit April to November. Reserve open all year round, Byre visitor centre with refreshments and disabled toilet.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Hair bobbles
- Reusable cutlery
- Ice packs
- Travel games
- Audiobook or story CD
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
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