Snowdonia is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Wales and is the first of three national parks to be designated.
The English name of the park really comes from the highest mountain in Wales which is Mount Snowdon but in welsh is named Eryi. The middle agesa first sparked the terms Lord of Snowdonia and Prince of wales.
The park is huge and is actually 838 square miles in area and is governed by the national park authority which is made up of the government and national representitives. In fact a lot of the land in Snowdonia is private and it makes up 69.9% of all of the shares. The rest of it is owned by the forestry commission, national trust, CCW, national park authority and water companies.
62% of all of the people that live in the are speak welsh and there are 26,000 people there altogether. The park gets 6 million tourists a year and is split equally between day visitors and visitors that stay overnight.
Many people train here before heading off to places like Mount Everest so it is a very important place indeed.
It isnt really hard to believe that Snowdonia is one of the wettest and coldest places in Britain and Crib Goch is actually the wettest point in the UK as it recives 4,472 millimetres a year of rainfall.
These reasoms are really just a few of many on why you should think about going to Snowdonia on your next travels. Once you get to the top the views in which you can find are simply amazing and will certainly take your breath away, although one of those family holidays UK may not be something you are interested in doing, at least take the time to have a family days out.
