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Lifelines: rural phone boxes
One more piece of rural community infrastructure is once again threatened with removal by BT in the form of the familiar telephone box at Carrog, Dyffryn Conwy.
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Visiting Snowdon?
Snowdonia National Park Authority, and partners from the Snowdon Partnership, have designed an app to help you answer these and other important questions. It is GPS enabled and works offline allowing you to track your progress whilst you ascend. You’ll find links to useful information to help you make the most out of your visit.
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Should I put my litter in the bin?
Bins are expected in towns and cities where there are generally more resources available for regular emptying, recycling and disposal. That expectation, transferred to the mountains, lakes and valleys of Snowdonia, creates a problem of its own.
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National Park Authority to pilot pre-bookable weekend parking at Pen y Pass.
After reviewing the emergency measures put in place at Pen-y-Pass with its partners, Snowdonia National Park Authority will now build on the success of the changes by piloting a pre-booking system at Pen-y-Pass car park on weekends and bank holidays for the remainder of the summer.
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Welsh Wildlife during lockdown – survey reveals how nature responded
Lockdown had a profound effect on the natural world in north west Wales, a new environmental survey has revealed.
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Support the Snowdonia Society at Tŷ Hyll
Buy our Plants for Pollinators once again from Tŷ Hyll tearoom to attract insects to your garden and help support our work protecting Snowdonia.
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To our “Welcome Back” volunteers- Thank you!
Welcoming people back to Snowdonia Over the past month the Snowdonia Society has been working with the National Park Authority, the Outdoor Partnership and the National Trust to organise volunteer days to assist with welcoming visitors back to Snowdonia. On March the 23rd the UK went into lockdown. Within days Snowdonia went from a hive […]
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Snowdonia Society features on BBC Radio Wales
Did you hear us on BBC Radio Wales last Sunday? If you didn’t manage to catch us on BBC Radio Wales’s Country Focus program last Sunday don’t worry, the program is available to listen to throughout August here. The program features the “welcome back volunteers”, a joint initiative between the Society, Snowdonia National Park Authority […]
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Launch of ‘Snowdonia, only better’ campaign – for a litter-free Snowdonia
As people return to Snowdonia in numbers the Snowdonia Society and its partners are launching an awareness campaign to take Snowdonia a step closer to becoming a litter-free National Park.
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Emergency Parking Measures for Snowdon
Authorities implement emergency parking measures following numerous examples of irresponsible parking in the Snowdon area.
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Welcome back to the future
“As we welcome visitors back, we must focus on what we want from tourism”
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The Dwyryd Estuary a step closer to a cable-free future
The Snowdonia Society has been involved at each stage of the planning process to minimise the visual impact of electricity infrastructure in this beautiful part of Snowdonia.
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Our ‘Mountain Pressure’ talk is now available to watch online
Last week, Snowdonia Society Director John Harold gave a talk for the Royal Geographical Society that was live streamed to members of the public. It’s now available online here.
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Do your little bit from home
The coronavirus has pressed the pause button on our volunteer days here in Snowdonia but there will come a time when we will return to the mountains, hills, forests, beaches and bogs.
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What we normally like to do in June!
Volunteer week has been a fixture in the Snowdonia Society calendar since its launch 2015. This now annual event is held in the first week of June and staff and volunteers alike greatly look forward to it. It is highly popular among our volunteers and places fill up extremely quickly. Normally, volunteers spend a (hopefully […]
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‘Stay Local’ is the current lockdown rule in Wales
Snowdonia’s ‘hotspot’ mountain areas remain closed.
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A window into how we’re supporting our friends at Pensychnant
A creative lockdown project for the Pensychnant Conservation Centre.
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The Snowdonia Society needs YOU
Give the gift of membership to a loved one on their birthday or join as a family and show your support for our work.
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