The Area
Each year millions of visitors enjoy the vast and varied landscape which acts like a magnet to those who want to take advantage of the wide range of exhilarating activities on offer in the Brecon Beacons National Park. If you enjoy walking then there can be no better place to visit - 1242 miles of public paths over 520 square miles of spectacular scenery. Just about every activity you can imagine is catered for in the Park and it is all waiting for you.
- Highest Point: Pen-y-Fan - 886m (2907ft)
- Tallest Waterfall: At Henryhd falls the River Llech plunges down 27m (90ft)
- Number of inhabitants: 32,000
- The two main rivers are the Usk and the Wye
- The other two rivers feed the cascading falls that flow into numerous reservoirs within the Park and the largest natural lake in South Wales - Llangorse Lake
