Rhaeadr Fawr, a tall single curtain of water off the northern Carneddau, reached by an easy valley walk from Abergwyngregyn
Aber Falls, or Rhaeadr Fawr in Welsh, is a single curtain of water about 120 feet high where a mountain stream drops off the northern edge of the Carneddau, the range of high, rounded mountains at the top of Snowdonia. It is one of the easier big waterfalls in the national park to reach: a broad, mostly gentle path leads up the valley from the village of Abergwyngregyn, roughly two miles there and back, past woodland and open pasture to the pool at the foot of the fall.
The falls are at their fullest and loudest after rain, when a lot of water comes off the hills at once; in a dry spell they thin out considerably. You can carry on from here onto the North Wales Path, which runs close by, or up into the Carneddau and Glyderau high ground if you want a proper hill day.
There is a car park at Abergwyngregyn, and the walk is manageable for most people in ordinary footwear, though the last stretch to the pool is rockier. Down towards the coast, Aber Falls Distillery is named after the fall, and the grand Penrhyn Castle is a short drive west near Bangor.
