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Put-in Large car park in Llangollen next to thePonsonby Arms LL20 8RY - Off Mill Street
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Take-out at Ty Mawr Country Park (LL14 3PE)

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Put-In: From the car park in Llangollen next to the Ponsonby Arms LL20 8RY (by the riverside, off the A539).

Take-out at Ty Mawr Country Park (LL14 3PE) where you can use a public car park sited about a 5 minute walk uphill along a good footpath from the river. When egressing you will find steps on river left conveniently marked by a red lifesaving post at the end of the last rapid before the railway bridge (SJ281413). Follow the path uphill to the right of the fenced area and continue on where the path meets a rough roadway. This track leads to a gate which you can walk around and then up a further 100 metres or so to the car park entrance. It is possible to move a vechicle to the gate to ease boat collection and for more discrete changing. Important note: The car park closes at 7:30pm so use the car park space that you will find just outside the gates if you are doing an evening run

Description - 9 Km
The river passes out of Llangollen as fast flowing grade I and continues in this fashion with occasional grade II drops. You pass a sturdy looking wall on the right hand side after about 3 miles and a little further on houses on the left bank of a right hand bend heralds Trevor Rocks. Thanks to published guidebooks this is well known as the site of the first UK canoe slalom competition in 1939. Let's hope it can provide good paddle sport for present and future generations too. A relatively easy grade III, I guess many would say grade II at lower water levels. A line from the centre down the right goes well in normal conditions, and in our case avoided disturbing a householder about his business on the left bank.

Just below at the tail end of the rapids is Trevor Bridge. Continue on for some more rapids as you pass under the impressive aquaduct (Pont Cysyllte). You pass an intake station on river right and then the river takes a right into a short S bend.

The next flat section seems longer than the ones higher upstream but then the rapids pick up again as the railway viaduct comes into view and you enter a pool with a picnic area on river left. This is Ty Mawr Country Park and a good place to stop. Carry on down the next set of rapids, at the end of which on river left you will see the red life-saving station mentioned in the take-out directions. Up the steps and progress up the hill back to the car park. Mark Benson