Wales fits alpine drama into a country you can cross in a morning. These are the roads that prove it.
Top Gear made it famous; the road deserved it anyway. Hairpins stack up the mountainside past old quarry workings, with the whole Bannau Brycheiniog spread below. Quiet midweek, bikers' church on Sundays. Drive it as part of our Black Mountain route from Llandovery to Llandeilo.
Through the heart of Eryri beneath Snowdon itself, rock walls closing in on both sides. Best at dawn before the climbers' laybys fill.
From Rhayader past a chain of Victorian dams and reservoirs, then over genuinely remote moorland to Cwmystwyth. One of the great underrated drives of Britain. It anchors the middle day of our Parks and Passes tour.
Wales's highest public pass, narrow and fierce, climbing out of Llanuwchllyn towards Lake Vyrnwy. The cautious take the A470 over the Crimea Pass instead and lose nothing.
The workhorse north-south road has a glorious stretch between Brecon and Merthyr, sweeping beneath Pen y Fan. Add the Storey Arms stop and watch the hill runners suffer.
The Black Mountain Pass and a three-parks Wales tour are built into Scenic Way with full turn-by-turn. First 2 journeys free.
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