Lon Las Cefni Cycleway / Cycle Path
Newborough Forest to Langefni (8 miles)
Here is a path for those who do not like cycling uphill. The south west corner of Anglesey is flat and this route is dead level the entire way.
It goes 8 miles from the edge of Newborough Forest through the pleasant estuary hamlet of Malltraeth into the very centre of Llangefni, the county town of Anglesey and which is a quiet market town with a certain amount of character. Llangefni also has an attractive art gallery/museum, the Oriel Ynys Mon (Anglesey Museum), situated in rural surroundings on the edge of the small town.
There is 1½ miles that is not off-road, but goes along an extremely straight, unfenced lane by the side of the river Cefni and on which you would be rather unlucky to encounter a vehicle in either direction. The cycleway too is mostly very straight with the occasional modest curve. Because of the nature of the terrain, views are extensive. After Pont Marquis the track has water courses on either side, though the main river is sometimes hidden by an embankment. The whole route should appeal to birdwatchers: in the winter of 2006-7 your webmaster even saw on the lagoon near Malltraeth a pelican that had been blown in from eastern Europe by strong winds.
The path is not tarmacadammed apart from nearly a mile near Llangefni, and the surface is slightly courser than many unsealed cycleways, so that suspension is probably an advantage and super thin tyres rather less so.
START: the forest car park on the edge of Newborough Forest off the A4080 signposted Malltraeth and shortly Left after a nature wild-life pool when heading north: Grid Ref: 412672 (Anglesey OS map).
It finishes by the memorial clock tower in the middle of Llangefni at Grid Ref 460757.
Photos of the path and views