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The binoculars tunnel is something quite unique and can be reached relatively easily if you have good footwear, take care, and don't mind a short scramble. This place is not suitable for small children though.

Free parking, toilets and a good cafe are also here.

Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI): Coed y Gopa is designated as an SSSI due to its exceptional biological interest. Bats: It's particularly renowned for being home to the second largest lesser horseshoe bat hibernaculum in North East Wales. These bats utilize the numerous old mine workings (adits) and natural caves within the site for winter hibernation. Other bat species like Natterer's bat and Daubenton's bat are also found here. The wide rides and varied habitats within the wood provide excellent feeding areas for bats. Other Wildlife: Beyond bats, the woodland supports a rich array of wildlife, including various bird species like ospreys, goshawks, pied flycatchers, redstarts, and wood warblers.

The batcaves, Coed y Gopa, meaning "wood of the summit" in Welsh, is a prominent and ecologically important woodland located on a limestone hillside in the Vale of Clwyd, North Wales, near the town of Abergele. It's a popular site for visitors due to its diverse wildlife, historical features, and breathtaking coastal views.

The Binoculars or Y Sbienddrych In Welsh. These tunnels are a notable part of the history to and from the Abercwmeiddaw Slate Quarry. In 1864, an experimental tunnel machine, designed by John Dickinson Brunton, this tunnelling machine was one of the minor few machines to even once exist and that was Worldwide! This tunnelling machine, was powered by a steam engine and was used to bore huge 80m circular tunnel and a failed 10m tunnel that both were drilled deep into the rock. However despite John Dickinson Bruntons efforts in him aiming to revolutionize quarrying. While yes he’d been very successful within these bored tunnels and had success in creating the quarried tunnels, yet the bore machine itself was far, far too difficult to even control and the whole operation was abandoned.

Highly recommended for a stop variable activities and pursuits to undertake as so many walking activities and routes to explore the children’s Playground my boy and friends loved the most as given its winter hours not a lot was actually available and open to public use also toilet facilities are limited in winter months cafe open but be sure to check the times upon arrival.

The Sygun Copper Mine offers the opportunity for those with a sense of adventure and curiosity to discover the wonders of a historic copper mine for themselves. This is suitable for the whole family. There are winding tunnels and large colorful rooms with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites. Activities also include lake/mountain walks, pottery making, archery, gold panning, metal detecting for ancient coins, adventure playground and bouncy castle. (Visit Wales)

The Little Orme (Welsh: Rhiwledyn, also known as Trwyn y Fuwch, Trwyn y Gogarth and Y Gogarth Fach) is 141 metres (463 ft) in height, and is a HuMP (having a minimum Hundred Metre Prominence). It is one of two headlands situated at either end of Llandudno Bay, in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The other, larger, headland is the Great Orme. It has two summits, the higher with a trig point. The cliffs are a popular challenge for highly experienced rock climbers. The Coast Guard Rescue Unit use the Little Orme for training. Otherwise, it is a popular sightseeing location and walking/hiking site. The Little Orme was inhabited during the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras, notably the Pant y Wennol cave. A small hoard of Iron Age Celtic metalwork was found in a cave on the Little Orme. The medieval chapel of Blessed Mary of Penrhyn, abandoned in 1930 and now in ruins, is at the foot of the Little Orme in the grounds of Penrhyn Hall at Penrhyn Bay. On 14 April 1587, printing material for Catholic literature was found in a cave on the Little Orme, where it had been used by the recusant Robert Pugh (squire of Penrhyn Hall) and his Chaplain Father William Davies to print Y Drych Cristianogawl (The Christian Mirror), the first book to be printed in Wales. They had taken refuge there during the persecution of Catholics instigated by Queen Elizabeth I in May 1586. The Royal Artillery coastal gunnery school, 198 battery, was posted to Little Orme during the Second World War. Target practice was undertaken from the headland to anchored boats, and unspent ammunition and unexploded shells may still be encountered offshore. Gun emplacements and ancillary buildings were in situ until at least the early 1960s, but the site has since been 'landscaped'.