Snowdon Summit - Orientation Plaque - Snowdonia, Wales.
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member veritas vita
N 53° 04.107 W 004° 04.577
30U E 427885 N 5880426
Trig Point with a difference. Firstly it stands on a Cairn, has an orientation plaque, & contains a mini weather station. From this Cairn (on a clear day) you can see, 4 countries. Located at the peak of Snowdon the tallest mountain in Wales.
Waymark Code: WMP5FK
Location: North Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/04/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Chris777
Views: 9

This Triangulation Cairn & Orientation Table, must be the most visited Trig point in the Britain, with thousands of visitors daily in the Summer.
The Snowdon summit monument was placed to celebrate the Millennium in 2000. The Conventional trig point & obelisk, was replaced with this cairn with a unique new brass trig point, with orientation lines, names, directions & distances engraved on the plaque.

There are five recognised, waymarked footpaths to the summit, also a rack & pinion narrow gauge train, which was the method I used to get to the summit.

"The summit building on Snowdon, Hafod Eryri, first opened in June 2009. It receives on average half a million visitors a year and it’s not hard to see why. On a clear day you can see Ireland, England, Scotland and the Isle of Man." Text Source: (visit link)

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Artist / Creator:
Snowdonia National Park


Date of creation: 2000

Location / Access:
Snowden Summit.


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