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Thinking of taking a week to ride from Fishguard to Chepstow on the Celtic Trail - from the looks of it, it is a sustrans route, so roads, cycle tracks and fireroads.
Anyone done it, or know something about it?
What is the terrain like for cheeky/wild camping?
Dave
no-one?
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I've never ridden it as a whole route, just used small parts of it (such as the Coastal Path around Llanelli and wherever the path goes through Swansea), so please take my 'advice' with a big pinch of salt.
I'd suggest that there isn't going to be a great choice of wild camping sites because of the areas it goes through, which I'm guessing is going to be mainly farmland down in west Wales, or the busier parts of the coast?
I'd also be concerned if the highlight of the western part is the Llanelli Coastal Path. It's nice for a stroll with the family, but not worth travelling long distances for.
I'd also point out that the eastern side of the ride will mainly be going through the industrial and built up part of Wales, so there will be some lovely scenery (and some truly great MTBing), but perhaps not so great for wild camping again.
Very vague I know, but the info on the Sustrans site is deliberately vague to make people buy the map.
i think you can do this via route 47 which takes you on forestry roads up from neath sharing bits with afan's skyline route, crosses rhigos mountain and drops you down to ynysbwl. high up in the forestry so plenty of opportunity for cheeky camping etc.