Exploring Dinorwic Slate Quarry with Stunning Views of the lake and abandoned miners cottages 🪨

Dinorwic quarry is a large former slate quarry, now home to the Welsh National Slate Museum, located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig (formerly Dinorwic) in Wales. At its height at the start of the 20th century, it was the second largest slate quarry in Wales (and thus, the world), after the neighbouring Penrhyn quarry near Bethesda.

Dinorwic covered 700 acres (283 ha) consisting of two main quarry sections with 20 galleries in each. Extensive internal tramway systems connected the quarries using inclines to transport slate between galleries.

Since its closure in 1969, the quarry has become the site of the National Slate Museum, a regular film location, and an extreme rock climbing destination.

Dinorwig Quarry in North Wales has been transformed into a significant tourist attraction, partly because it's now a part of the Dinorwig Power Station, a pumped-storage hydroelectric scheme. The quarry was a major source of slate, and its workings have left behind a unique and impressive landscape, including the quarry lake itself.

We took a look around the old stone houses, walked around the stunning Quarry lake and through some of the tunnels carved into the slate

CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
2:15 - The start of the walk
5:00 - Miners cottages
8:20 - Someones been camping in this old cottage
11:15 - Hole in this fence leads to the stunning quarry lake
12:40: - Mined tunnel leads to a waterfall
17:44 - Abandoned cable cart and cable pulley system