Manchester Airport 1 hr 7
Llangollen Motor Museums (5 min)
Small, quirky showcase of vintage autos, motorcycles & memorabilia, plus a gift shop. National Trust - Erddig (24 min)
Massive 18th-century manor offering tours of the family house & its ornate 12,000-acre garden. Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (8 min)
19 arch feat of engineering by Thomas Telford, with water from Horseshoe Falls and boat rides. Chirk Aqueduct (15 min) Pistyll Rhaeadr (55 min)
240-ft. mountain waterfall accessed by a footpath, with a tearoom, B&B & campsite at its base. Tŷ Mawr Country Park (12 min) Valle Crucis Abbey (7 min)
Remains of a circa-1201 home to Cistercian monks, with picnic tables, a pond & a cafe. Llangollen Railway Station (8 min)
Standard-gauge railway following the River Dee through an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Horseshoe Pass (10 min)
Horseshoe-shaped mountain pass with scenic mountain views, plus a cafe at the road's highest point. National Trust - Chirk Castle (14 min)
Medieval bulwark with grand 18th-century state apartments, suits of armour and manicured gardens. Alyn Waters (24 min)
Expansive green space offering wooded & riverside trails, a playground, visitor centre & cafe. Castell Dinas Brân (6 min)
Hilltop ruins of a 13th century castle built on the site of an earlier Iron Age hillfort. Plas Newydd Historic House & Gardens (4 min)
A 14th-century country house rebuilt in Victorian times and remodelled in the 1930s. Horseshoe Falls (6 min)
Horseshoe-shaped waterfall artfully created by a low dam, with lush surrounds & picnic spots. | 
