Start from 42 curated places around Brecon Beacons, GB, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
The Walnut Tree
Shaun Hill's Michelin-starred restaurant in Llanddewi Skirrid, a couple of miles out of Abergavenny, serving precise, unfussy modern British cooking that lets the produce do the talking. This is the region's destination dinner, low on theatre and high on flavour.
The Gaff
A Bib Gourmand small-plates restaurant tucked in a sunny Abergavenny courtyard, run by a couple who came up through The Walnut Tree. The menu is a short, seasonally shifting run of Mediterranean-leaning sharing plates that punch well above the modest setting.
Trails & outdoors
Pen y Fan from Storey Arms
The most direct climb to the South Wales high point, starting from the A470 and pushing straight up the well-trodden path to the 886m summit. It's a steady, lung-testing ascent with huge views as a reward, and the busiest hill walk in the park.
Pen Y Fan Horseshoe
The big day out in the central Beacons, a roughly 16km circuit linking Corn Du, Pen y Fan, Cribyn and Fan y Big around the Taf Fechan valley. Quieter than the tourist path, it strings together the four main peaks along an airy ridge.
Things to do
Penderyn Distillery Brecon Beacons
Wales's flagship whisky distillery on the park's southern edge, the first new Welsh distillery in over a century when it opened in the early 2000s. The award-winning visitor centre runs tours through the single-malt process and finishes with a tasting - a solid rainy-day and adult-leaning stop.
Brecon Mountain Railway
A narrow-gauge steam railway that climbs from Pant into the heart of the park, running alongside the Pontsticill and Taf Fechan reservoirs up toward Torpantau. Vintage locos and open observation cars make it an easy, scenic outing that kids and grandparents both go for.
Landmarks & sights
Pen y Fan
At 886m this is the highest peak in South Wales, the flat-topped summit that dominates the central Beacons skyline. Most people climb it from the Storey Arms or Pont ar Daf car parks on the A470 for the wide views over the reservoirs and the Bristol Channel on a clear day.
Sgwd yr Eira
The 'Fall of Snow' in Waterfall Country near Ystradfellte, where a natural rock ledge lets you walk right behind the curtain of water. It's the showpiece of the Four Waterfalls area on the Afon Hepste, reached on foot through wooded gorges.