anyone know if you are allowed to ride this track?

here
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=275250&y=347242&z=120&sv=275250,347242&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=827&ax=275250&ay=347242&lm=0

to
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=273665&y=345764&z=120&sv=273665,345764&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=827&ax=273665&ay=345764&lm=0

there is a track on the ground (by the sounds of it) and it would avoid me having to use the road to Llan Ffestiniog.

Thanks very much.

The parallel dashed lines from your start point indicate a track, which should be accessible provided it’s not private land – is there any signage?

However, the track seems to peter out before your end point, and becomes a footpath… you shouldn’t ride on a footpath (of course, you knew that already), but there’s nothing stopping you pushing/carrying your bike along there…

Also, you’re passing through a disused quarry – these are often private land, worth checking out.

Maybe ask at one of the properties in Cwm Penmachno?

thanks. I’ve heard of people using it and the quarry is unused now I gather. yeah though I could always ‘walk’ it 😉

hoping someone on here has ridden it already.

anyone? 🙁

Ridden it, it’s a great way over to Manod. Let them sue you for damages to the hardpack doubletrack up to Rhiw Bach quarry and then hardpack slate incline from Rhiw Bach up to Blaen Y Cwm at the top.

There are plans to link up all the existing and future trail centres in North Wales utilising historical/quarrying infrastructure and I think something like this track is on the list.

It’s almost no-mans land – I’d have thought you would be ok trying it.

great thanks. Is the quarry being used still – who owns the land and or who is going to be linking up the man made trails?

The only working quarry left on that hill is the big opencast one on Manod Mawr. Everything else has been closed for decades.

singletracksurfer – who owns the land and or who is going to be linking up the man made trails?

http://www.tendersdirect.co.uk/Search/Tenders/Expired.aspx?ID=%20000000003166657&sect=P002&cat=15&Source=Categories

That’s all I know of its progress so far. Pete Bursnall scoped a bit of it last summer for Conwy Council:
http://web.mac.com/petebursnall/Pete_Bursnall/Blog_42/Entries/2010/6/9_35km_over_the_Moelwyn_and_back..html

Up till fairly recently there was no public access to the track, however Conwy CBC were/are in the process of designating a footpath, with the landowners consent. There are currently no plans to allow biking on it, as far as I’m aware.