Directions from the ‘Lone Wolf’ campsite on Glyn Y Mul Farm to the Mountain Bike Centre at the Afan Forest Park

Total Distance 11 miles

As you leave the farm yard, turn right onto the lane which leads down to Aberdulais Village. Follow the lane down to the village, through the houses and down the hill with the bends on it up to the give way lines. Then turn right onto the main road and follow it up to a roundabout.

Take the 2^nd exit from the roundabout signed ‘Neath A465’. This takes you over the top of the dual carriageway immediately onto another roundabout where you turn right (2^nd exit) towards Neath. You will then join the A465 dual carriageway.

You will be leaving the dual carriageway at the first exit you come to which is signed ‘Neath A474’. As you leave the dual carriageway, keep in the nearside (left) lane. You will come up to a roundabout at the end of the exit ramp where you must turn left (1^st exit), again signed ‘A474 Neath’. You will join a short section of dual carriageway and you should get over to the off-side (right) lane as soon as you can.

You will quickly approach a roundabout where you need to take the 2^nd exit (virtually a right turn) towards the village of Pontrhydyfen (forget trying to say it). Afan is signposted on brown local tourist direction boards from this point but they are not always very well located.

Within only a few metres, you will come to another roundabout where you must turn left (1^st exit) onto the B4434 which is quite clearly signed ‘Afan Forest Park’.

Follow this road for about 500 metres, through a set of pelican lights and then you come to a traffic light junction. At these lights turn right, signed Pontrhydyfen, Cimla and Afan Forest. You will go over a mini roundabout and then start a long climb up a hill with houses on both sides. Just stay on this road. You ascend for about 1 ½ miles until eventually the houses stop and suddenly you are in countryside very high up. Keep on this road and you now start to go downwards. You will enter the village of Pontrhydyfen. Carry on straight through the village. As you leave the village, the road you are on will turn right and take you on a short bridge over a river with an impressive viaduct on your right. Once over the bridge you climb a short hill up to a ‘T’ junction.

At this ‘T’ junction, turn left onto the A4107 sign posted ‘Afan Country Park’. The Mountain Bike Centre entrance is 1.8 miles along that road on the right side. It is clearly signed with brown local direction tourist boards. There are a few other forestry commission type places along the road before you get to the entrance which may confuse you but hold on for the brown boards or note your mileage reading from the ‘T’ junction. 1.8 Miles.

Directions from the Afan Mountain Bike Centre to

Glyn Y Mul Farm

As you leave the Afan Visitors Centre, turn left onto the A4107. Follow this road for 1.8 miles before making a right turn onto the B4287 towards Neath. (This junction is easily over-shot if you are not careful). You will go down a short hill, over a river bridge then bend left. Stay on this road for a total of 3.8 miles. You will go through and out the other side of Pontrhydyfen village, up a long hill, and then as you start to enter the residential area you will go down a very long decent. As you reach the bottom of the hill, you will go straight over a mini roundabout then almost immediately come to a set of traffic lights. There is little or no signing at these lights but you need to turn left. You should be on the B4434 now. Within a few hundred metres, you will come to a roundabout. You need the third exit signed ‘M4 Swansea’. As you take the third exit you will immediately come to a second roundabout where you need to turn left (1^st exit). You will go onto a short period of dual carriageway and as soon as possible move over to the right hand lane. You will then come to a very large roundabout. Turn right here (3^rd exit) signed ‘A465 Merthyr’.

You will join the A465 dual carriageway and you need to leave at the first exit you come to which is signed ‘A4109 Seven Sisters’. Leave the dual carriageway at this exit and at the end of the exit slip road you will come to a roundabout. You need the 3^rd exit. Be careful as the signposts don’t take account of the new exit on the roundabout for a housing development. The exit you want is signed ‘A4109 Seven Sisters’. As you join this road take it slow. Within about 200 meters of leaving the roundabout, you will go through a set of pelican lights outside the Aberdulais Falls Visitor Centre.

On the left hand side directly after the pelican lights is a very long lay-by. At the end of the lay-by you should see a road on the left going off up an incline. You should be able to spot an advanced warning road sign for speed humps at the foot of the hill. That’s the road you want. Turn left onto that road, being cautious of the two speed ramps as you enter it. It’s quite a steep hill with a sharp left hand bend followed by a right bend. At the top of the hill the road levels and straightens out. Keep driving straight on through the houses (Caution – kids often playing in the streets). After about 300 metres the houses stop and the road narrows down to a single track country lane. The farm is just under a mile up the lane from that point on the left side. It is clearly signed when you get to the entrance.

*The most frequent error is that when people join the A4109 from the roundabout as they leave the dual carriageway, they over-shoot the left turning up the hill. Having joined the A4109, if you come to a turning on your right towards ‘Resolven’, or you see National Speed Limit signs then you have gone too far.

If you are really stuck – the farm number is 01639 643204

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