Newborough Forest & Llanddwyn Island 13 km

This easy and pleasant walk takes you through Newborough Forest, on the tidal island Ynys Llanddwyn, on the beach along Llanddwyn Bay and past the dunes of Newborough Warren. On Ynys Llanddwyn and from the edge of Newborough Warren you have spectacular views of the Snowdon Mountains and the Llŷn Peninsula. The beach close to Ynys Llanddwyn is sandy and bringing swimwear can be recommended with good weather. Only at (very) high tides the Ynys Llanddwyn becomes an island, a few hours any day at most.
The walk starts on a parking lot on Church Street in Newborough. You follow a footpath past a church through the fields until you get to the edge of the forest. In the forest you follow paths, trim tracks, cycle tracks and gravel roads towards the sea. When you get to the beach you turn right towards Ynys Llanddwyn. The island is connected to the mainland at all but the highest tides. West of the isthmus connecting the island to the mainland the surf is generally a bit better than on the east side. On the island you follow marked paths till the tip of the island, where you find a lighthouse, pilot’s cottages, a small tower and a beach. On the way back you pass a celtic cross close to the ruins of a church. From the island you walk back along the beach until you get close to the beach parking lot where you follow duckboard through the sand dunes onto the parking. From the parking you take a path through the dunes towards Newborough Warren, which boasts one of the largest and finest dune systems in Britain. You follow a path on the edge of the dunes and the forest back towards Newborough. At a gate where you can also turn right towards Abermenai Point you turn left on a track through the fields. After about 700 m you turn right on a public footpath which takes you through stiles and fields (with cows) back to Newborough.
There are no facilities on the hike except for toilets on the beach parking. In Newborough itself you can find cafés, inns and shops. The hike was inspired by and is almost the same as walk 14 in the German-language book “Rother Wanderführer: Wales – Die schönsten Küsten- und Bergwanderungen”.