Information about Cwm Rhaeadr MTB Trail

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, Llandovery

Cwm Rheadr is home to a fantastic grade red mountain biking route, set in remote woodland in stunning mid-Wales.

In a remote woodland 20 miles from the mountain bike base at Brechfa, and just outside the village of Cilycwm lies Cwm Rhaeadr, home to a wonderful red mountain biking route. It may only be 6.7km in length and it may be the only route here, but it is definitely worth the trip. Made possible with funding awarded to the Cilycwm Local Community Association it is rated by MBR magazine and most who ride here as one of the best trails in the UK. Check out the film edit for Cwm Rhaeadr to see for yourself.

Facilities Accommodation and refreshments are available in the village of Cilycwm and in Llandovery. The small car park at Cwm Rhaeadr is free to use.

Getting here Cwm Rhaeadr, near Llandovery is located one mile north of Cilycwm village. Follow the signs for Cilycwm from the A482 or A483. Continue north out of Cilycwm towards Llyn Brianne Reservoir until you reach the signs for Cwm Rhaeadr.

Cwm Rhaeadr MTB Trail: Opinions

4.8/5 (28 Opinions)
Andrew Reay 1 year ago

Fantastic experience: Short but sweet. Excellent trail design. A chunk of the climb is fire road, but there is an excellent technical climb up towards the summit. The descent has a loop option so that you can do it again without the full drop to the car park. Not a highly technical red, but not for beginners really.

Emma B 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: A bit of a climb to get to the downhill but good fun if you just want a short run. Few drops but all are rollable

Andy Lock 2 years ago

Fantastic experience: Short trail (4 miles). One climb followed by (mostly) one descent, with the option of a top loop. All weather trail with some standing water. Rated as red, which is fair due to some sections, but mostly blue.

Diane Woods 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great choice of bike paths and not over crowded. A lovely surprise at the end in the car park, when all the red kites where being fed and it was magical.

Paul Duce 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Quick one. Very tight single trail.

Gerry Sefton 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: It's a bit of a bugger to get to but the trails are sublime. If you're anywhere near and you enjoy flowing singletrack (if you're looking for gnarly rock gardens then this isn't for you) it's 100% worth the effort of getting here. Recommended

Nick Goldie 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing trail. Great views. Technical!

Andy Morris 3 years ago

Fantastic experience: Awsome short trail ,every fun feature in there

Phil Lee 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Very nice basically a climb with stunning views ,then nice descent , berms , air , speed and scenery , well worth the climb , I did 2 laps on a hardtail ,approx red grade

Matthew James 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Amazing place for the mtb

Jaden Rose 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Can't fault a good trail that's free and has a great ratio of difficulty climbing to fun descent.

Chris Bennett 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: My favourite trail of all time, nice climb for a very rewarding decent. Brilliant scenery

andrew hicklin 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Only a very small trail centre but the relatively short climb is well worth the down!

Rhydian Evans 4 years ago

Fantastic experience: Love the mountain bike route, really fast and open now. One climb up then a lovely continuous down hill with only minor undulations. The tanks return is a good but is currently a little wet. Now comes the negative part of my review, I'm so happy with the trail it's the management of the resource that winds me up: Not open yet, really dissatisfied with natural resources wales, who keep moving the date that the mountain bike trails will be open, we were told in November that this would be open (at least to locals) in February as it stands the route is still closed and the work has all been completed. Combine this with the fact that brechfa and abergorlech are closed off for repairs as well which leaves us nowhere in our local area to go mountain biking

Andy smith 5 years ago

Fantastic experience: Epic

Kenneth South 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: The climb to the waterfall is well worth it and as for the trail that follows it is awesome fun and fast!

Ed Davies 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Short trail but quite challenging

Louis Fleming 6 years ago

Positive experience: Great fun but quite challenging

Darron Tomlinson 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great little trail well worth a visit if you are in the area.

Sam Rapley 6 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic bit of single track in mid Wales. I visited in October and other than the sheep, was the only one out. There's a decent car park at the bottom, a climb for 1.5 miles with some fantastic views of the valley below and then about 3 miles of decent single track for all abilities. The trail is graded red, and, while there are some challenging sections, it's fairly easy to avoid these. It's short enough to go round several times and get some practice in. I thoroughly recommended a detour to give this a go.

Ross Waite 7 years ago

Positive experience: If local great if not not really worth it

Simon “Nomis R” Rogers 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Great descent! Chatty fire roslad climb, what's not to like

Martin Wheatley 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Fantastic little trail fast flowing and plenty of little kickers. 6.7km

Jacky Newcombe Mears 7 years ago

Positive experience: Great views. Well looked after. Great for all mtb ability with a variety of trails

Geoff Stickland 7 years ago

Positive experience: Extensive forestry trails, very pretty

Alan Down 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Lovely loop. Well with a detour for a couple hours

Ben Chapman 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: Favourite trail albeit short

Jason Arthur 7 years ago

Fantastic experience: A true hidden gem. Not the longest trail out there, 7km but you'll be hard pushed to find many out there that offer such a sweet singletrack descent. Pretty much one long climb before descending back to the car park. You'll be going back for at least one more lap, if not two. There's no cafe or bike shop, just a forestry car park so come prepared.

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