Things to do in Blaenau Gwent

Parc Bryn Bach is a country park and reservoir near Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent, providing extensive outdoor recreation facilities in a post-industrial landscape at the head of the Sirhowy valley. The park centres on a 36-hectare reservoir and a network of walking and cycling trails through reclaimed former colliery and ironworks land, with a visitor centre, watersports facilities, caravan and camping site and extensive picnic and recreation areas. The reservoir supports sailing, windsurfing and canoe hire, and the surrounding land provides habitat for a range of bird species that colonised the reclaimed landscape over the decades following industrial closure. The park represents the successful transformation of a heavily industrialised landscape in the South Wales coalfield into a recreational and natural heritage asset, and serves as the primary country park facility for the communities of Blaenau Gwent.