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Public · Starts near Betws-y-coed
Twistly pickSarn Helen and Pennant Woodland Loop
This drive winds along Sarn Helen through thick tree cover before linking with Ffordd Pennant and the A5. Narrow bends track close to the hillside across sheltered woodland stretches.
- How curvy
- Properly twisty
- 34% curvy share
- Distance
- 61.1 km
- Driving time
- 1 hr 17
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A third or more of the drive is in corners, one following the next. Curvy share is how much of the drive is on genuinely curved road, measured on the finished route — including every connecting road it took to get there, not just the good bits. The wording above is cut against real drives: flat-country runs measure in the teens, a good Peak or Wales drive in the thirties, and the best loops in the country in the high forties.
More numbers
Curviness 18% — the length-weighted mean of how tightly the route curves, where 100% would be continuous hairpins. It rewards sharpness where curvy share rewards sustained curve, which is why the two differ.
What to expect
- Shape
- Loop
- Character
- Woodland
- Motorways
- Avoided
- Asked for
- 55 km
- Stops found
- 4
- Speed limits
Limits: mostly national limit · 13% in 20slimits partly inferred
Finishes where it started
The kind of road it was built from
Kept off the route
This came out at 61.1 km, 11% over
Mapped within 500 m of the line
Limits are inferred from the road's class for 59% of this drive — nobody has mapped a limit there, so the national limit for the class is assumed.
Runs past
Betws-y-coedDolwyddelanLlanrwstMaenan
Settlements within about a kilometre of the drive, in the order it reaches them. From OpenStreetMap.
Along the way
Hang In Pizzeria
Restaurant · 10 m off the route
parking · outdoor seating · hours listed · website
At the start
Elen's Castle Hotel
Pub · 10 m off the route
parking
38% along
Ty Asha Balti House
Restaurant · 20 m off the route
Near this route
Photographs taken within about a kilometre of this drive, from Wikimedia Commons. They are near the route — we have no evidence any of them shows it.
Near this route · Tudor Williams · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near this route · Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Near this route · Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0
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