Hostel of the week

Snowdon Ranger, a path, an inn and a hotel before a youth hostel.

The Snowdon Ranger Hotel was famed almost as much as the Gorphwsfa and Pen-y-Gwryd for the climbing of Snowdon, and tourism flourished, but in the 1930s the hotel closed.

Merseyside Youth Hostels purchased the property freehold for £1,800, with the aid of a National Fitness Council grant of £1,000 and a Robert Davies Trust grant of £800. There were beds for 20 men and 20 women.

Read more in John Martin’s historic profile of a hostel rich in Mountain lore. https://duncanmsimpsonwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/11c-y950001-rhyd-ddu-snowdon-ranger-yhs-profile-rev2020-01-01_compressed.pdf