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The "Mountain Centre"
is located
5 miles south west of Brecon and some 15 miles north of Merthyr Tydfil. It
was opened in 1966 with financial assistant from the Carnegie United
Kingdom Trust. The Mountain Centre, which is how everyone refers to it in
South Wales, is run by the Brecon
Beacons National Park Authority. It is consistently the most popular visitor attraction in the
National Park.
Contact Details:
National
Park Visitor Centre (Mountain Centre)
Libanus, Brecon, Powys, LD3 8ER.
Phone (01874) 623366; Fax (01874) 624515.
Some 1100ft / 335m above sea
level offering its location offers stunning views of Pen Y Fan the
highest mountain in South Wales. An
adjacent moorland ridge known as Mynydd
Illtyd offers some fine easy to
moderately graded walking.
Children and families are catered for
in a well tended large field suitable for informal games.
Admission is Free but
there is a modest car parking charge. Overnight accommodation, camping and
caravanning are not provided for. Driving and camping on the adjoining
Mynydd Illtyd common is not allowed.
Landscape Interpretation:
There
is a National Park information section with
books, maps and souvenirs. An excellent exhibition offers an introduction
to help visitors appreciate and explore this pristine protected landscape.
There is a 60 seat lecture / conference room and a
comfortable lounge with windows that display the landscape
panorama.
Food at the Mountain Centre:
The recently refurbished refreshment lounge offers hot and cold lunches, a
"Taste of Wales".
It offers excellent food at an affordable price and visitors return again
and again. Visitors are also very welcome to bring their own food and
picnic outside. (Food Festival at the
Mountain Centre).
The Mountain Centre
Location Map
Brecon Beacons
National Park Authority
Danywenallt Study Centre
Craig Y Nos
Village Information Agencies
Further Information and Events at
the Mountain Centre:
The Mountain Centre, Libanus, Brecon, Powys, LD3 7DP Tel:
01874-01874 623366. |
