Lôn Las Ogwen is a cycle route in the

National Cycle Network The National Cycle Network (NCN) is the national cycling route network of the United Kingdom, which was established to encourage cycling and walking throughout Britain, as well as for the purposes of bicycle touring. It was created by the cha ...

which runs south from the NCN 5 at Porth Penrhyn on the north coast of

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...

Llyn Ogwen Llyn Ogwen (; ) is a ribbon lake in north-west Wales. It lies alongside the A5 road between two mountain ranges of Snowdonia, the Carneddau and the Glyderau. Somewhat unusually, the county boundary at this point is drawn so that the lake its ...

Snowdonia Snowdonia or Eryri (), is a mountainous region in northwestern Wales and a national park of in area. It was the first to be designated of the three national parks in Wales, in 1951. Name and extent It was a commonly held belief that the na ...

. Lôn Las is

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for "blue lane". From Porth Penrhyn to

Penrhyn Quarry The Penrhyn quarry is a slate quarry located near Bethesda, North Wales. At the end of the nineteenth century it was the world's largest slate quarry; the main pit is nearly long and deep, and it was worked by nearly 3,000 quarrymen. It has ...

it follows the former

Penrhyn Quarry Railway The Penrhyn Quarry Railway was a narrow gauge railway in Caernarfonshire (now Gwynedd), Wales. It served the Penrhyn quarry near Bethesda, taking their slate produce to Port Penrhyn, near Bangor. The railway was around long and used a gauge ...

trackbed. After

Tregarth Tregarth is a village near Thomas Telford's A5 London to Holyhead road between the town of Bethesda and the city of Bangor in Gwynedd, north Wales. It is in Llandygai Community. It had a population of over 1,300 as of the 2011 census. . His ...

the route climbs about to Ogwen Cottage.Lon Las Ogwen
Sustrans

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Porth Penrhyn , Glasinfryn ,

, Bethesda ,

Nant Ffrancon The Nant Ffrancon Pass in Snowdonia, North Wales, is the long steady climb of the A5 road between Bethesda, Gwynedd, and Llyn Ogwen in Conwy. The summit at is at Pont Wern-gof, about one-third of a mile beyond the eastern end of Llyn Ogwen. Fr ...

, Ogwen Cottage ,

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Recreational Routes
Gwynedd Council
Lon Las Ogwen
Sustrans
Lon Las Ogwen to Capel Curig
Mud & Routes
NCN 82
on Open Cycle Map
Ogwen Trail
route description with photos
Light at end of the tunnel for scenic Gwynedd path
Daily Post, 24 Feb 2017
Are Wales' disused railway tunnels an untapped resource for tourism?
BBC News, Jan 2017 Cycleways in Wales Transport in Gwynedd Rail trails in Wales {{Gwynedd-geo-stub

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