Portballintrae-Giants Causeway
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- Distance
- 8.17 mi
- Elevation gain
- 640 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 640 ft
- Max elevation
- 319 ft
- TrailRank
- 41
- Min elevation
- 3 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 3 hours 22 minutes
- Time
- 5 hours 42 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2339
- Uploaded
- August 10, 2023
- Recorded
- August 2023
near Portballintrae, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
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Portballintrae-Giants Causeway
This is a beautiful walk, mostly on trail, along a rugged coast to the Giant's Causeway, an extremely popular tourist attraction. Most people visit by driving to the Visitor Center, where they pay 13 GBP/person to park and enter the center. But visiting the Giant's Causeway itself costs nothing, if you walk there on the Causeway Coast Way. The trail is generally well-constructed, but there were many puddles after a hard rain. It winds along the tops of cliffs, but for the most part it's not very precipitous.
The Giant's Causeway (Irish: Clochán an Aifir)is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills.
It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 and a national nature reserve by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland in 1987. In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the Giant's Causeway was named the fourth-greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom.
The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although some have four, five, seven, or eight sides.
This is a beautiful walk, mostly on trail, along a rugged coast to the Giant's Causeway, an extremely popular tourist attraction. Most people visit by driving to the Visitor Center, where they pay 13 GBP/person to park and enter the center. But visiting the Giant's Causeway itself costs nothing, if you walk there on the Causeway Coast Way. The trail is generally well-constructed, but there were many puddles after a hard rain. It winds along the tops of cliffs, but for the most part it's not very precipitous.
The Giant's Causeway (Irish: Clochán an Aifir)is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills.
It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 and a national nature reserve by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland in 1987. In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the Giant's Causeway was named the fourth-greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom.
The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although some have four, five, seven, or eight sides.
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Car park
30 ft
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