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Black Mountain Pass and Gospel Pass

A figure of eight from Brecon: west over the A4069 Black Mountain Pass, then east over the Gospel Pass, the highest road in Wales, and down the Vale of Ewyas.

Distance
132 miles (213 km)
Type
Loop
Where
Bannau Brycheiniog

Plotted by us, not yet ridden

Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.

Main roads

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From the map

Longest gap between fuel
23 miles
Fuel stations near the line
19
Curvature
136 ° a mile
Campsites within 2 km
50
  • The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 49 to mile 72. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
  • The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 28 to mile 48, at 217 degrees of turning a mile.
  • Passes: Gospel Pass (550 m, mile 95).

Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.

Before you go

  • The A4069 is a well-known biking road with a crash record to match.
  • The Gospel Pass is single track. Expect walkers, ponies and oncoming cars at blind bends.

On the way

  1. Brecon
  2. Sennybridge
  3. Llandovery
  4. Llangadog
  5. Craig-y-nos
  6. Brecon
  7. Talgarth
  8. Hay-on-Wye
  9. Gospel Pass
  10. Llanthony
  11. Abergavenny
  12. Crickhowell
  13. Brecon
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1Places to stay

Search beds in Brecon

2Cover

Check your breakdown cover recovers a motorcycle, and from where. Some policies only cover you from home, or not at all on single track roads.

What to check before you buy cover

Places to see on the way

Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.

Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.