Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons)
Red sandstone escarpments, the highest ground in southern Britain, and the waterfalls below them.
High point: Pen y Fan, 886 m
Where to base yourself
Talybont-on-Usk
A canalside village below the Neuadd valley and Fan y Big.
Station: Merthyr Tydfil is the nearest in a straight line; the 43 bus links the village to Abergavenny station, the other one in range
122 to stay
Brecon
Market town on the Usk, with Pen y Fan eight miles south.
Station: Merthyr Tydfil, with the T4 bus onward to Brecon; Abergavenny is the other station in range, with the 43 bus along the Usk valley
116 to stay
Crickhowell
Under Table Mountain, with a hillfort walk from the high street.
Station: Abergavenny
113 to stay
Abergavenny
Mainline station, market town, and Sugar Loaf and the Skirrid beyond.
Station: Abergavenny, on the Welsh Marches Line, southeast of the town centre
87 to stay
Hay-on-Wye
The border book town, five miles below Hay Bluff and the Gospel Pass.
Station: Hereford, with the X44 bus from the railway station to Hay
73 to stay
Hot tubs in Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons)
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Cray, near Brecon, Mid Wales
Bwthyn y Bannau
Sleeps 9 · 4 beds
- Hot tub
- Dogs
from £1,310 / week
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Cray, near Brecon, Mid Wales
Bedlwyn Coch Farm
Sleeps 8 · 4 beds
- Hot tub
- Dogs
from £1,296 / week
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Cray, near Brecon, Mid Wales
Crai Valley Eco Lodges
Sleeps 19 · 9 beds
- Hot tub
- Wood burner
- Dogs
from £3,064 / week
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Cray, near Brecon, Mid Wales
Group accommodation in the Brecon Beacon
Sleeps 25 · 10 beds
- Hot tub
- Wood burner
- Dogs
from £3,246 / week
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Cray, near Brecon, Mid Wales
Llety Llyn y Fan
Sleeps 10 · 5 beds
- Hot tub
- Wood burner
- Dogs
from £1,772 / week
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Cray, near Brecon, Mid Wales
Onnen Fawr Barn
Sleeps 11 · 4 beds
- Hot tub
- Wood burner
- Dogs
from £1,396 / week
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Cray, near Brecon, Mid Wales
Onnen Fawr Cottage
Sleeps 6 · 2 beds
- Hot tub
- Wood burner
- Dogs
from £621 / week
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All 393 stays in Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) All 93 with hot tubs The 273 that take dogs
Walks
Fan y Big from the Upper Neuadd Reservoir
The 719m last summit of the Beacons horseshoe, with its diving board rock, reached from the Taf Fechan Forest below the Upper Neuadd Reservoir.
- 17.4 km
- 848 m up
- 7 hr
- Hard
Four Falls Trail from Gwaun Hepste
A waymarked 8km circuit past four waterfalls on the Mellte and Hepste near Ystradfellte, ending behind Sgwd yr Eira, in three to four hours.
- 8 km
- 3 hr 30 min
- Moderate
Hay Bluff and Twmpa from the Gospel Pass Road
A circuit of Hay Bluff (677m) and Twmpa (690m) from the Hay Bluff car park on the Gospel Pass road, about 9km in three to four hours.
- 9.2 km
- 456 m up
- 3 hr 30 min
- Moderate
Llyn y Fan Fach from Llanddeusant
A glacial lake beneath the Carmarthen Fans, dammed by conscientious objectors in the First World War, walked with the Picws Du ridge from Llanddeusant.
- 8.6 km
- 485 m up
- 4 hr
- Moderate
Pen y Fan from Pont ar Daf
The highest mountain in southern Britain at 886m, climbed with Corn Du from the National Trust's Pont ar Daf car park by a stone-pitched path.
- 6.4 km
- 450 m up
- 3 hr 30 min
- Moderate
Sugar Loaf from the National Trust Car Park
A 596m cone-shaped Black Mountains summit above Abergavenny, climbed from a National Trust car park in about two and a half hours.
- 5.7 km
- 273 m up
- 2 hr 30 min
- Moderate