Lôn Las Ogwen is a cycle route in the

National Cycle Network The National Cycle Network (NCN) was established to encourage cycling and walking throughout the United Kingdom, as well as for the purposes of bicycle touring. It was created by the charity Sustrans who were aided by a £42.5 million N ...

which runs south from the NCN 5 at

Porth Penrhyn Port Penrhyn () is a harbour located just east of Bangor in north Wales at the confluence of the River Cegin with the Menai Strait. It was formerly of great importance as the main port for the export of slate from the Penrhyn Quarry, the larg ...

on the north coast of

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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 itself ...

Snowdonia Snowdonia, or Eryri (), is a mountainous region and National parks of the United Kingdom, national park in North Wales. It contains all 15 mountains in Wales Welsh 3000s, over 3000 feet high, including the country's highest, Snowdon (), which i ...

. Lôn Las is

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for "green lane". From Porth Penrhyn to Penrhyn Quarry 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, Gwynedd, Bethesda, taking their slate produce to Port Penrhyn, near Bangor, Gwynedd, Bangor. The railway w ...

trackbed. After

Tregarth Tregarth is a village 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. History The village grew around the local slate indus ...

the route climbs about to

Ogwen Cottage Ogwen Cottage Outdoor Pursuits Centre is situated beside Llyn Ogwen, in Gwynedd, Wales. It is owned by the National Trust, who bought the property at auction in October 2014 for £450,000. It was formerly for many years part of Birmingham Cit ...

.Lon Las Ogwen
Sustrans

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Glasinfryn Glasinfryn is a small village in Gwynedd, Wales. It is situated between the village of Tregarth and the city of Bangor, Gwynedd, and in the community of Pentir. The village is residential in nature but with many outlying farms. It is noted for h ...

, Bethesda ,

Nant Ffrancon The Nant Ffrancon Pass ( Welsh: ''Bwlch Nant Ffrancon'') in Snowdonia, North Wales is at at Pont Wern-gof, about one-third of a mile beyond the eastern end of Llyn Ogwen. The A5 road crosses it between Llyn Ogwen and Bethesda, Gwynedd. Geo ...

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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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