CAMPSITE | Snowdon Base Camp Campsite Assessment

May 18, 2025

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In a uncommon show of organisation, many months in the past I booked Snowdon Base Camp for a 3 evening break over the late Might financial institution vacation weekend. Seduced by the mountain and lakeside location, I packed my tenting and swimming wear and headed for a weekend in Snowdonia. Learn on for my full evaluate.

The place did we keep?

Snowdon Base Camp – Cwellyn Arms, Rhyd Ddu, Gwynedd, LL54 6TL
Snowdon Base Camp on-line reserving

The lowdown

Beautiful lakeside location
Kiln-dried logs are solely allowed to be burned on website (bought from them)
Campfires are allowed within the provided hearth pits
No music
No noise after 12 midnight

Our keep

Friday twenty fourth Might 2024 – Sunday twenty sixth Might 2024

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Campsite location

For me, direct and easy accessibility to Cwellyn Lake was the actual draw of this campsite, and for open water swimmers, kayakers and paddle boarders, this campsite actually is a dream come true.

Llyn Gwynant campsite, the place we’ve stayed at earlier than and loved, is simply 10 minutes away, however I believe it’s honest to say it’s so widespread now that not solely can it’s troublesome to get a pitch booked, however it may be very busy, significantly over peak vacation weekends.

Regardless of us spending 4 days at Snowdon Base Camp over a financial institution vacation and it being busy, there was nonetheless loads of house and we didn’t really feel like different campers had been too shut, nor did we wrestle to discover a pitch.

The realm itself is, in fact, beautiful, however if you wish to discover additional, there are many implausible locations to go to inside a 30-minute drive. Caernarfon isn’t far-off and the sumptuous fortress is nicely price a go to, you’re additionally near Llanberis and our favorite city within the space, Betws-y-coed, which has some nice locations to eat in addition to loads of out of doors retailers and extra.

The very best bits had been all because of the situation and vibe of this fabulous campsite. We love a back-to-basics really feel once we go tenting, and with our personal camp bathroom and bathe, shared services don’t actually affect us

For these wanting a base from which to discover Yr Wyddfa and the bigger Snowdon Massif, this campsite is ideal. Each the Rhyd Ddu path and Ranger path are accessible on foot from right here and given the recognition of this stroll and elevated crowds, tenting so near facilitate a brilliant early morning hike earlier than the crowds arrive is an actual bonus.

Campsite services

There are two foremost parking areas to select from and it’s essential to notice that this isn’t a campsite that enables automobiles to park subsequent to pitches. This implies you’ll want to hold your tenting gear to your chosen pitch.

Snowdon Base Camp washing up at campsite

Pitches right here aren’t mounted; you simply select the situation you need. We took our personal tenting trolley with us, however needn’t have bothered as there are many heavy-duty trolleys provided for campers to make use of on website. Even with our huge tent and huge tenting set-up, it solely took us 4 journeys to and from the automotive in complete to get all the things to our pitch.

On website, there are 2 completely different rest room blocks, one within the river subject, that are fairly respectable and an older block of, not fairly pretty much as good, shared services within the bigger lake tenting subject.

There’s a chemical disposal level, an outside washing-up space and loads of bins and recycling factors. There are additionally a handful of pitches with an EHU, however these aren’t positioned within the prettiest space, with views that may’t actually compete with the remainder of the campsite.

The vibe

There have been a number of huge teams, which in fact, given the financial institution vacation, meant plenty of youngsters. The large group in entrance of the place we camped left their youngsters alone, a number of instances all through the weekend for a number of hours on finish, which did result in a rise within the already excessive noise volumes.

If you happen to discover the sound of balls relentlessly being kicked and children enjoying restful, then you definitely’ll love this campsite. For us, we had hoped that the no music rule would hold anti-social behaviour down, however we had been disenchanted to search out one couple in a major location in entrance of the lake ignored the rule. Each time we walked previous their pitch, they had been enjoying loud music – no marvel there have been a number of metres of house on both aspect of them as others clearly clocked their show of poor tenting etiquette and stayed away.

The pleasant proprietor patrols on his bike a few instances a day, ensuring everyone seems to be OK and guaranteeing campers are adhering to guidelines – however in fact, as quickly as he left the location once more, folks would revert to banned behaviours.

Ultimate say

Regardless of the negatives associated to noise, the campsite itself is simply too fantastic for us to not wish to return. The spectacular location means we’ll completely be again, however subsequent time, we’ll make some extent of avoiding financial institution holidays or college holidays.

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DISCLOSURE | This tenting journey was booked and paid for independently. We weren’t paid to write down this evaluate.