Crib Goch
Crib Goch is a knife-edged arête in the Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd, Wales. The name means "red ridge" in Welsh. The highest point on the arête is 923 metres above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Snowdon and Llyn Llydaw.
Snowdon
Peak
Photo: Gdr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Snowdon, or Yr Wyddfa, is a mountain in Snowdonia in North Wales. It has an elevation of 1,085 metres above sea level, which makes it both the highest mountain in Wales and the highest in the British Isles south of the Scottish Highlands.
Llyn Llydaw
Lake
Photo: Fallschirmjäger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Llyn Llydaw is a natural lake in Snowdonia National Park on the flanks of Snowdon, Wales' highest mountain. This long thin lake has formed in a cwm about one-third of the way up the mountain.
Garnedd Ugain
Peak
Photo: David Crocker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garnedd Ugain, the summit of Crib-y-Ddysgl ridge, is a pyramidal mountain in Wales that forms part of the Snowdon Massif. It is the second-highest peak in Wales and lies just under one kilometre north of the summit of Snowdon itself.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nant Peris and Cwm Idwal.
Cwm Idwal
Locality
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cwm Idwal is a cirque in the Glyderau range of mountains in northern Snowdonia, the national park in the mountainous region of North Wales. Its main interest is to hill walkers and rock climbers, but it is also of interest to geologists and naturalists, given its combination of altitude, aspect and terrain.
Rhyd Ddu
Rhyd-ddu is a small village in Snowdonia, North Wales which is a starting point for walks up Snowdon, Moel Hebog, Yr Aran and the Nantlle Ridge. It lies on the A4085 between Beddgelert and Caernarfon, at its junction with the B4418 to Nantlle and Penygroes. Rhyd Ddu railway station is one of the stops on the Welsh Highland Railway between Caernarfon and Porthmadog.
Crib Goch
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,028 feet
- Description: mountain (923m) in Gwynedd
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Llanberis, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.07632° or 53° 4′ 35″ northLongitude
-4.05459° or 4° 3′ 17″ westElevation
3,028 feet (923 metres)Open location code
9C5Q3WGW+G5OpenStreetMap ID
node 3686236093OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Crib Goch” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Crib Goch”
- Cebuano: “Crib Goch”
- Czech: “Crib Goch”
- Dutch: “Crib Goch”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كريب جوتش”
- French: “Crib Goch”
- Irish: “Y Grib Goch”
- Japanese: “クリブ・ゴッホ”
- Ladin: “Crib Goch”
- Swedish: “Crib Goch”
- Welsh: “Crib Goch”
- Welsh: “Y Grib Goch”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Jammed Boulder Gully and Cwm Glas Mawr.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bwlch Coch and Brittania Copper Mine Mill.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Crib Goch”. Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.