Silver Bay Beach: Anglesey’s Best Remote Beach?

Silver Bay Beach, Anglesey, might represent one of the best remote beaches in North Wales. Only accessible on foot (unless you happen to be staying in the nearby Silver Bay Holiday Village), this vast expanse of sand and rocks is one of the best places to enjoy an Anglesey beach experience without any of the associated crowds.

Combing low rocky headlands with the background sights and sounds of RAF Valley, this is undoubtedly a beach with a difference. So with that in mind, let’s tell you a little more about Silver Bay and why it’s worth paying a visit.

What Makes Silver Bay Beach Different to Anglesey’s Other Beaches?

Well, unlike most of Anglesey’s famous beaches, such as Newborough and Trearddur Bay, this beach is not served by any car parks. The closest you can get your car is, at best, a 20-minute walk away. However, that walk is more than worth it to enjoy what is objectively one of Anglesey’s finest beaches without the crowds you might have to contend with on better-served beaches.

This beautiful beach represents back to basics, with no real facilities to speak of. There are no ice cream vans or toilet blocks although there is now a hut with picnic benches and bins, which is likely run by the holiday park. This was closed on our last visit so it’s unclear as to what food and drink you may be able to purchase here.

Upon arrival, all you are presented with is a vast expanse of sand and rocks that you will often have to yourself (or very few others). In the summer holidays, the difference between Silver Bay Beach and other nearby beaches such as Trearddur Bay, Rhoscolyn, and Rhosneigr Beach is stark, and it can very much feel like your very own place.

Silver Bay Beach Activities

Despite not having much in the way of facilities, there is plenty to do at Silver Bay (or Traeth Llydan, if you prefer). If you have kids (or don’t), when the tide rolls out, there are a mountain of rockpools that you can go and explore, fishnet and bucket in hand.

For those more adventurous, on calmer days, you can blow up your paddle board and venture out into the bay or enjoy a spot of surfing on those windy days. Kayaking and canoeing are also popular at this beach. Just remember that you will have to carry any watersports equipment a long way given the access difficulties of the location.

A surfboard, bodyboard, or inflatable paddle board may be feasible, but windsurfing is most likely impossible unless you happen to be staying in the holiday park. The same goes for any sea fishing gear you might want to bring with you.

If none of those activities takes your fancy, it’s an excellent idea to stroll along this sandy horseshoe in the direction of RAF Valley and watch the many jets and helicopters taking off. Of course, you can always go for a swim too. However, as with all remote beaches, there is no lifeguarding service on this beach. You enter the water at your own risk.

Getting to Silver Bay Beach, Anglesey

The hard part is getting to this beach in the first place. It is not serviced by any car parks or facilities, meaning you’ll have to park somewhere else and then make your way across on foot.

It is not recommended to walk through the Silver Bay Holiday Village. That site is private property, and you will be turned away if you make your way through the park with a load of gear clearly destined for the beach. Plus, you will miss out on what are two potentially very enjoyable walks.

The first, and perhaps the best, route to Silver Bay Beach is from Rhoscolyn.

Park at the Rhocolyn Beach car park (Traeth Borth Wen Pay & Display Car Park) and then make your way back up the narrow road you came down to the house on the final bend.

You’ll see the signpost for the Anglesey Coastal Path.

Take a right and follow it as it meandering around the rear of Rhosoclyn Beach.

After weaving through some more bungalows, the path opens up onto the headland.

Follow the path as it takes you around the little inlets and gulleys around the headland until you eventually arrive at Silver Bay beach. This should take you around 15 minutes.

If you want to take a different route home, you can:

From the back of the beach, head up to the pine forest plantation (there are wooden steps here).

Follow the fenced path up through the plantation until you pick up signs for the coastal path.

Then head diagonally across the farmer’s fields (NB: there are sometimes cows in this field if you have a dog with you) to the gate next to the holiday home.

Follow the track up from the holiday home until the point at which it becomes a road.

Follow the road down to a T junction on a bend. Turn left.

Follow this road until it splits into a road that bears left and a track that bears straight on/right. Take the track.

After roughly 400 yards, bear right and come off the track onto another one that has the appearance of somebody’s drive.

Walk down past the property and garden until you reach the back of Rhoscolyn Beach.

You can either retrace your steps by taking a right and heading back to the car park, or you can bear left and drop down onto Rhoscolyn Beach.

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