Mountain queues 'show need for investment'

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Snowdon and Pen y Fan: Busy mountains 'need investment'

"It's great to see tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people enjoying the Welsh countryside - but how can we cope and deal with so many people?

Helen Pye, head of engagement, said:"Visitors bring an estimated £69m of economic benefit annually to the Snowdon area alone. But it is also having significant impacts on the local community, the mountain and the environment of the area.

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snowdoneryri This picture is hell! It’s less busy on my local high street 😖😖😖

We need to get a motorway constructed to get people to the top quicker.

I hate to say it as I love my lonely walks on empty mountains, but the National Park should do more to promote and facilitate people walking the Carneddau from Bethesda as well as investing Yr Wyddfa. They’re only 20-30m shorter, it would help spread the footfall burden

Just stop calling them mountains and get on with it.

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