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Llangollen Adventure Holidays - here Proadventure on Llangollen's main street
The Raging River Dee at Llangollen, perfect for Whitewater Rafting all year round
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Whitewater rafting at Llangollen, River Dee & National Whitewater CentreLlangollen Adventure Holidays River Dee Whitewater Rafting Wales
Llangollen's choice of spectacular historic industrial sites, it's music festival and it's selection of pubs and shops in the town is not the whole story by far. Did you know that the River Dee is one of the best rivers in the UK for whitewater rafting, kayaking, and canoeing! What's more the River Dee doesn't rely on Dam releases like other whitewater rafting hotspots in the UK, making it an all year round whitewater hotspot.
Llangollen has a selection of excellent outdoor adventure holiday centres (see weblinks right for details). These acclaimed centres offer a choice of water and outdoor sports including white water rafting, canoeing, kayaking, rock climbing, abseiling, gorge walking, laser clay and archery, paint balling, quad biking, bird watching tours, and mountain biking. Llangollen is a superb location of an adventure activity stag or hen weekend any time of the year! The outdoor activity centres also welcome corporate team building groups and school parties. Llangollen's secret is out - for whitewater rafting adventure you'll be hard push to find a better venue than Llangollen!
Llangollen Adventure Holidays - The River Dee
The superb opportunity for various outdoor leisure pursuits and watersports in and around Llangollen is another factor which pulls the crowds to this area of North Wales. Several outstanding outdoor adventure centres are based here in Llangollen - JJ Canoeing and Rafting, Proactive Adventure and ProAdventure (see weblinks right).
Llangollen Youth Hostel (website right) also works in conjunction with Proactive Adventure to offer a host of outdoor activities including mountain biking and canoeing for groups, as well as offering group accommodation that won't break the bank! These reputable outdoor centres have fully inclusive insurance cover, are accredited and have experienced instructor. Stag and hen activity weekend, multi activity week breaks, corporate events and team building, plus school groups are all welcome alongside individuals, families and groups of friends.
The River Dee rocks all year round too for white water rafting - no dam release reliance on this river! What's more, the Dee Valley offers a superb terrain for climbing, walking, mountain biking and more!
Llangollen YHA Centre Tel: 0870 770 5932. Set in over 5 acres of it's own private grounds - plenty of room here for archery, the climbing tower, BMX courses and a high ropes course. Alongside this Llangollen YHA offers coasteering, white water rafting and more. Check their website right for more details.
Llangollen Adventure Holiday Centres - White Water Rafting, Mountain Biking, Kayaking, Canoeing
JJ Canoeing and Rafting Ltd, Mile End Mill, Berwyn Road, Llangollen, Denbighshire, LL20 8AD. Tel: 01978 860763. This Llangollen Adventure Centre specialises in whitewater rafting - full safety briefings and training given, all you need is a real sense of adventure and be prepared to get wet! They also offer canoeing, kayaking, climbing, abseiling, laser clay and archer, paint balling, quad biking and mountain biking. Check their weblink right for details. Stag and hen party weekends are welcome, as are corporate team building groups, families and school parties.
ProAdventure Ltd, 23 Castle Street, Llangollen. North Wales LL20 8NY. For Activity Bookings Tel: 01978 861912. A range of activities are offered by this excellent Llangollen Adventure holiday centre, tailored for individuals, families, groups and companies - all welcome. Activities offered include rock climbing, abseiling, gorge walking, kayaking, open canoeing, white water Rafting, mountain biking and mountain walking.
Pro-active Adventure, The Old Forge Annex, Snead, Churchstoke, Powys SY15 6EB. Tel: 01588 630123. Specialising in Mountain Biking, but also offering kayaking, climbing and abseiling, caving, gorge walking and coasteering, this activity centre operates not just in and around the River Dee but also in other areas of Wales including Powys and Pembrokeshire (the home of coasteering - see the Pembrokeshire Tourist guide on this website for information). Pro-active work in conjunction with Llangollen Youth Hostel (website right), offering a host of activities.
Dee Valley Walking, The Dee Valley Way and Offa's Dyke
Walking in the Llangollen area couldn't be better. The Dee Valley Way fruns fro 15 miles between Corwne and Llangollen. It's a superb marked trail this one, and easy to dip into. Check the Dee Valley Walks weblink right for maps of the Dee Valley Way to download. This splendid trail passes practically all the main attractions in the area, including passing through Castle Street in Llangollen town centre, and passing Valle Crucis Abbey, the ancient Dinas Bran Castle and Iron Age fort. On the Corwen stretch the trail largely runs parallel with the River Dee. This is a good place to dip into the trail for a gentle riverside walk!
You can combine a trip on the Llangollen Railway and hop off at Berwyn for the walk to Horseshoe Falls. You can walk back to Llangollen from Horseshoe Falls too (2 miles) along the easy Shropshire Union Canal towpath running alongside the River Dee. Horseshoe Falls is certainly on the Thomas Telford trail! It's a semicircular weir designed by Telford himself in 1806. It's function was to provide water to the Llangollen branch of the Shroppie (Shropshire Union Canal).
What Telford forgot to consider was that the canal needed a heck of a lot of water - in fact it took such enormous amounts via Horseshoe Falls that it depleated the River Dee's water supply to the extent that several mills along the river went bust.
Keen walkers visiting the area will be aware that the north/south Wales Offa's Dyke Path passes just 1 mile outside of Llangollen (conveniently past Chirk Castle). Llangollen then serves as a superb base for either passing walkers on the Offa's Dyke National Path, or for a longer base and dipping into this path and the Dee Valley Way. Llangollen's Tourist Information Centre on castle street has a huge selection of walking maps and guides on the surround area and on both Offa's Dyke and the Dee Valley Way.
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