Things to Do in Amlwch

Parys Mountain

Rising just south of the town, Parys Mountain is one of the strangest landscapes in Wales — a hillside stripped and stained ochre, violet and rust by nearly three centuries of copper mining, most intensively after the 1768 discovery of the "Great Lode" that briefly made Amlwch one of the largest towns in the country.

The Parys Mountain Heritage Trail, a waymarked walking route across the old workings, is free and open year-round, managed by the volunteer-run Amlwch Industrial Heritage Trust. The site carries multiple protections — it's a Site of Special Scientific Interest (for both its metal-tolerant lichen communities and its exposed geology), several features are Scheduled Monuments, and the whole of Anglesey, Parys Mountain included, sits within the GeoMôn UNESCO Global Geopark.

For a closer look underground, the volunteer-run Parys Underground Group offers a small number of guest visits before requiring an annual membership — a good option for anyone keen to get below the surface trail. The Amlwch Industrial Heritage Trust is currently fundraising for a new visitor and learning centre to be built on the mountain itself; it hasn't opened yet, so there's no visitor centre on site today — just the open trail.

Anglesey Mining plc still has its headquarters at Parys Mountain and remains active in exploration and planning rather than production: a scoping report was submitted in 2024 and the company has been working through a fresh planning application for underground-only mining. Don't expect to see active extraction on a visit — it's a heritage and landscape site first.

Walking to Point Lynas

A circular walk from Amlwch out to Point Lynas — via Porth Eilian and the village of Llaneilian, with its early church of St Eilian — covers around 4.5 miles and takes roughly two and a half hours at an easy pace, with a few short climbs and the odd boggy patch underfoot. Keep an eye on the water: dolphins, porpoises and seals are all regularly spotted from this stretch of coast.

The lighthouse and keepers' cottages at Point Lynas are privately owned and run as holiday lets, so there's no public access inside — but the headland around it is open for walking as part of the coastal path, and it's a genuinely dramatic spot to turn back from.

Bull Bay Golf Club

An 18-hole course dating to 1913, on the clifftop above Bull Bay — marketed as Wales's most northerly golf course, and open to visitors and new members.

The Coast Path West

Amlwch Port to Cemaes via Bull Bay is roughly 8 miles of clifftop path, passing two pubs in Bull Bay village along the way.