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Cwm R MTB trail is completely blocked at top end due to hundreds of wind fallen trees this winter. Please consider before as you can not navigate loop.

Oodles of glorious singletrack on the Gorlech trail! Narrow and rutted or a little wider with more berms and switchbacks, it's all good to ride year-round. The trail is all well signposted so it's hard to get lost here.

Fast and flowy, this is the thrilling last descent on the red-rated Gorlech trail. After all that climbing, you'll be glad to savour all the downhill as you make your way back to the trailhead.

At the heart of the Country Park is a lake, surrounded by a peat bog. Elsewhere are areas of heathland and broadleaved woodland. Facilities include a visitor centre, cafe and Mountain Bike and Tarmac / good quality bike trails.

Don't lose your way here: there are many different MTB trails, walking routes and fire roads that intersect at this river crossing so it can get a bit confusing! I'd say it's a really good idea to have a GPS track of your chosen trail with you (or even better downloaded for offline use) at Brechfa, as many of the trails criss-cross or are multi-directional, so it's easy to get lost!

Don't be fooled: there's a lot of climbing on the black-rated Raven trail at Brechfa and this early section seems like the worst of it! After the first singletrack, you then cross the river and head up again, this time on a seemingly impossible singletrack — at least it was for us in the wet and mud of winter! The steep gradient will challenge almost all riders, and we found ourselves hopping off and pushing on the worst sections. Keep your eyes peeled as you hike though, as we found some cows in the woods up here! Not what you'd expect to find usually in woodland. It's beautifully green and mossy up here, and there are some fun, flatter sections once most of the climbing is done before you hit the descents proper.

Possibly the most technical part of the whole black-rated Raven trail at Brechfa, this final section of singletrack down to the car park is a real blast. There are some steep, large rollers before a couple of tabletops and small rock drops. The great news is this section is easily sessionable too, thanks to the parallel main fire road.

Fantastic fast gravel tracks