5 Things You Didn’t Know About Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park
To celebrate National Parks Week 2024 (16th-24th April), we share with you five things you didn't know about Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park
1. In 2022, members of the Snowdonia National Park Authority committee voted to use the Welsh names, Yr Wyddfa and Eryri, to refer to the mountain and the national park, rather than the English names, in materials produced by the authority. Eryri is pronounced "Err-ur-ee".
2. Established in 1951, Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park is Wales' first national park.
3. Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park covers 11,000 hectares of woodland, 37 miles of coastline, 1,497 miles of routes to explore and has nearly 4 million visitors a year.
4. There are nine mountain ranges in Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park which include Carneddau, Glyderau and Snowdon. Below these are Moelwynion, around Blaenau Ffestiniog, and Moel Hebog, close to Beddgelert. To the south are Rhinogydd, Cadair Idris, Aran Fawddwy and Dyfi Hills.
5. 26,000 people live in Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park, of which 58% are Welsh speakers.
