Prestatyn’s biggest
Frith Park
Park or garden
17 ha (41 acres)4.3 km of path
55 minto walk all 4.3 km of path
23 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
0.5 mi westfrom the centre
Campsite
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Photo: Mark Anderson · CC BY-SA 2.0A+Outdoors Grade
Outdoors in Prestatyn · parks, paths & countryside
Prestatyn is on the coast, on the Wales Coast Path
The sea makes up 42% of the area within 5 km. The Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape reaches the edge of Prestatyn. Parks and playing fields in Prestatyn add up to 3.3 ha for every 1,000 residents; the typical UK town has 2.1. Prestatyn grades A+ for the outdoors: #1 of 39 in Clwyd. A character grade: it isn’t part of the overall grade.
Green space
3.3 ha
per 1,000 residents
Typical UK town 2.1
Near a park
92%
of residents within 400 m
Typical UK town 83%
Footpaths
63 km
2.9 km per km², town + 1 km
Typical UK town 3.0 per km²
Protected landscape
14%
of the land within 5 km
Nearest: Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape
The sea
42%
of the area within 5 km
A coastal town
Character
What kind of outdoors town is Prestatyn?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and bad.
On the coast42% of the area within 5 km is sea; 24 beaches mapped.Countryside close byThe Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape starts 0.0 mi south-east.On a National TrailThe Wales Coast Path passes through.
Prestatyn’s strongest suit is the sea, followed by the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape close by.
Outdoors grade
Prestatyn grades A+ for the outdoors
Each chart is every UK town of 1,000 or more on one measure: the green bar is Prestatyn, the dashed line the typical town. The number is the share of towns it beats; the five are averaged and the average ranked again.
A+
Better than 97% of UK towns#1 of 39 in Clwyd · 1st of 60 UK towns its size
Public green space3.3 haper 1,000 residents: parks, gardens, playing fields, play spaces
75out of
100
100
A park within a walk92%of residents within 400 m (a 5-minute walk)
71out of
100
100
National Park or National Landscape14%of the land within 5 km
74out of
100
100
Footpaths2.9 kmper km², the town and 1 km around it
58out of
100
100
The sea42%of the area within 5 km
97out of
100
100
Graded, never part of the overall grade (like History and Civic life). It measures what is mapped: OS Open Greenspace leaves out woodland and open-access land that isn’t a park, and OpenStreetMap’s rural paths are more complete in some places than others.
Towns its size
Prestatyn is 1st of 60 UK towns its size for the outdoors
The 60 UK towns and cities of 15,700 to 17,600 people with an Outdoors Grade. Hover a dot for its figures; tap one for its page.
Outdoors score: the share of UK towns each one beats
Footpath, km per km²
Prestatyn2.9
Towns its size3.3
Clwyd towns2.3
All UK towns3.0
Green space, ha per 1,000 residents
Prestatyn3.3
Towns its size2.3
Clwyd towns1.9
All UK towns2.1
Residents within 400 m of a park
Prestatyn92%
Towns its size84%
Clwyd towns83%
All UK towns83%
Against towns its size, Prestatyn stands out most for park space per resident: only 14 of the other 59 have more. It falls furthest behind on path per km², where 36 of the others do better.
Show as a table
| Town | Outdoors | Green space | Near a park | Path per km² | Protected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prestatyn Clwyd | A+ | 3.3 | 92% | 2.9 | 14% |
| 2 | Dorking Surrey | A | 4.4 | 75% | 7 | 57% |
| 3 | Clitheroe Lancashire | A | 3 | 98% | 3.1 | 59% |
| 4 | Hadfield Derbyshire | A | 2.4 | 91% | 4.5 | 36% |
| 5 | Shiney Row and Penshaw Tyne and Wear | A | 9.6 | 98% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 6 | Bishop's Cleeve Gloucestershire | A | 1.9 | 100% | 3.9 | 35% |
| 7 | Connah's Quay Clwyd | A | 5.8 | 97% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 8 | Bedlington Northumberland | A | 5.1 | 94% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 9 | Bredbury and Woodley Greater Manchester | A | 4.8 | 94% | 4.8 | 0% |
| 10 | Lewes East Sussex | A | 1.9 | 83% | 4.6 | 75% |
| 11 | Porthcawl Mid Glamorgan | A− | 3.5 | 82% | 2.8 | 0% |
| 12 | Euxton Lancashire | A− | 3.7 | 98% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 13 | Worcester Park and Stoneleigh Surrey | B+ | 7.3 | 76% | 4.9 | 0% |
| 14 | South Woodham Ferrers Essex | B+ | 7.8 | 93% | 3 | 0% |
| 15 | Wath upon Dearne South Yorkshire | B+ | 5.5 | 85% | 3.6 | 0% |
| 16 | Weybridge Surrey | B+ | 3.9 | 80% | 4.4 | 0% |
| 17 | Wombwell South Yorkshire | B+ | 2.4 | 92% | 4.5 | 0% |
| 18 | Burnham-on-Sea Somerset | B+ | 2.1 | 79% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 19 | Swanley Kent | B+ | 1.8 | 78% | 4.2 | 20% |
| 20 | Swinton South Yorkshire | B+ | 3 | 97% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 21 | Liversedge West Yorkshire | B+ | 2 | 98% | 4.3 | 0% |
| 22 | Tyldesley Greater Manchester | B | 2.3 | 97% | 3.5 | 0% |
| 23 | Brackley Northamptonshire | B | 2.7 | 100% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 24 | Haydock Merseyside | B | 6.8 | 86% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 25 | Westbury Wiltshire | B | 1.4 | 97% | 3.3 | 1% |
| 26 | Amersham Buckinghamshire | B | 1.8 | 62% | 3.7 | 64% |
| 27 | Patchway Gloucestershire | B | 2.5 | 80% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 28 | Haslingden Lancashire | B | 1.8 | 89% | 5.5 | 0% |
| 29 | Cobham Surrey | B | 3.1 | 49% | 4 | 1% |
| 30 | Wimborne Minster Dorset | B | 2.7 | 51% | 3.6 | 17% |
| 31 | Penrith Cumbria | B | 1.6 | 91% | 2.9 | 9% |
| 32 | Bangor Gwynedd | B | 0.9 | 79% | 2.7 | 11% |
| 33 | Wymondham Norfolk | B | 2.8 | 97% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 34 | Minster (Swale) Kent | B | 2.5 | 89% | 1.2 | 0% |
| 35 | Bramhall Greater Manchester | B− | 4.7 | 71% | 3.4 | 0% |
| 36 | St Ives Cambridgeshire | B− | 1.7 | 95% | 3.7 | 0% |
| 37 | Biddulph Staffordshire | B− | 3.3 | 86% | 2.7 | 0% |
| 38 | Knaresborough North Yorkshire | B− | 2.3 | 87% | 3.1 | 0% |
| 39 | Baildon West Yorkshire | B− | 2 | 71% | 7.5 | 0% |
| 40 | Heysham Lancashire | B− | 1.4 | 83% | 2.2 | 0% |
| 41 | Ramsbottom Greater Manchester | C+ | 2.1 | 74% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 42 | South Normanton and Pinxton Derbyshire | C+ | 1.7 | 90% | 3.2 | 0% |
| 43 | Elland West Yorkshire | C+ | 2 | 69% | 4.7 | 0% |
| 44 | Royston Hertfordshire | C+ | 1.3 | 83% | 4.1 | 0% |
| 45 | Aldridge West Midlands | C+ | 3 | 83% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 46 | Bodmin Cornwall | C+ | 1.1 | 87% | 2.4 | 3% |
| 47 | Longfield, New Ash Green and Hartley Kent | C | 1.2 | 54% | 3.3 | 21% |
| 48 | Streetly West Midlands | C | 7.5 | 58% | 2 | 0% |
| 49 | Bourne Lincolnshire | C | 1.3 | 70% | 4.6 | 0% |
| 50 | Ripon North Yorkshire | C | 1 | 75% | 2.4 | 17% |
| 51 | Nailsea Somerset | C | 1.1 | 65% | 5.4 | 0% |
| 52 | Tonypandy Mid Glamorgan | C | 1.5 | 85% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 53 | Maltby South Yorkshire | C− | 1.8 | 78% | 2.5 | 0% |
| 54 | Hale Greater Manchester | C− | 2.4 | 50% | 2.6 | 0% |
| 55 | Stone Staffordshire | C− | 1.5 | 86% | 2.1 | 0% |
| 56 | North Hykeham Lincolnshire | C− | 2.4 | 60% | 2.3 | 0% |
| 57 | Saffron Walden Essex | C− | 1.1 | 63% | 3.9 | 0% |
| 58 | Louth Lincolnshire | C− | 0.6 | 76% | 1.3 | 47% |
| 59 | Oswestry Shropshire | C− | 1.3 | 88% | 2 | 0% |
| 60 | Carmarthen Dyfed | D | 1.6 | 76% | 1.6 | 0% |
The map
Parks, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is Prestatyn’s built-up area.
Green space: parks, gardens, playing fields and play spaces, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · Contains OS data © Crown copyright · Natural England / NRW
Places to walk
Parks to walk in, in and around Prestatyn
The biggest is Frith Park, 17 ha (41 acres). Directions go to the park’s nearest public entrance where Ordnance Survey maps one.
All 5 named parks by size: 24 ha (58 acres) and 5 km of path
Parks & gardens 21 haPlaying fields 2.9 ha
The two biggest, Frith Park and Hillside Gardens, are 83% of the named green space and carry 5 km of path between them.
Hillside Gardens
Park or garden
3.1 ha (8 acres)0.3 km of path
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
1 mi south-eastfrom the centre
1 listed
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Coronation Gardens
Park or garden
1.0 ha (2 acres)0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
0.5 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
The Morfa's Playing Field
Playing field
2.9 ha (7 acres)
4 pitchesfootball pitches would fit
Centralin the middle of Prestatyn
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Parc Pendre
Park or garden
0.1 ha (0 acres)0.1 km of path
0.7 mi eastfrom the centre
Directionsto the nearest entrance
Close to home
9 in 10 Prestatyn residents live within a 5-minute walk of a park
Each square is 1 in 100 residents: green lives within 400 m of a public park, garden or playing field (Census 2021 output areas against OS Open Greenspace).
Within 400 m (92%)Further (8%)
Prestatyn92%
Towns its size84%
Clwyd towns83%
All UK towns83%
About 1,300 people live further than that. Playing fields count, so a park within reach isn’t always one with paths or trees; 54 playgrounds are mapped in and around the town, about one for every 309 residents.
National Parks & National Landscapes
National Parks and National Landscapes around Prestatyn
Protected landscapes within 30 km, by direction and distance from the edge of the built-up area; circle size shows each one’s area. National Landscapes were called Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty until 2023.
National ParkNational LandscapeThe 5 km the grade counts
National Landscape
Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley
At the edge south-east389 km²since 201114% of the land within 5 km
National Park
Snowdonia
16 mi west2,140 km²since 1951
14% of the land within 5 km of Prestatyn is National Park or National Landscape, more than 73% of UK towns. Snowdonia National Park covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951.
Footpaths & waymarked walks
Prestatyn is on the Wales Coast Path
63 km of footpaths, bridleways and rights of way are mapped in Prestatyn and the kilometre around it, 2.9 km for every square kilometre (the typical UK town has 3.0). Bars show each route’s kilometres within 2 km of the town.
NationalRegional
Wales Coast Path (North Wales) main route8.8 km
North Wales Path8.5 km
Offa's Dyke Path6.3 km
Clwydian Way6.1 km
The Wales Coast Path, a national route, passes Prestatyn. 2 regional routes pass through, including the North Wales Path and Clwydian Way.
Waymarked walks are OpenStreetMap walking routes. Public rights of way are only as complete as the map in each area.
When to get out
The best walking months in Prestatyn: May to August
The town’s 1991–2020 averages (Met Office HadUK-Grid) and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have 12½+ hours of daylight, highs of 15 °C or more and little rain for the town.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.7 | 13.9 | 15.8 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 60 | 51 | 46 | 50 | 50 | 60 | 63 | 71 | 71 | 83 | 78 | 84 |
March is the driest month (46 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 20 °C). Winter days are short, about 8 hours of daylight in December, and 84 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 23 nights a year. The climate in Prestatyn →
The coast
The coast and beaches near Prestatyn
42% of the area within 5 km of Prestatyn is sea. 24 beaches are mapped within 5 km, 2 with a name.
Rhyl Sands1.8 mi from town
DirectionsHorton's Nose Nature Reserve2.7 mi from town
DirectionsThe Wales Coast Path passes the town.
Sea: the area outside the ONS coastline (mean high water). Bathing water quality is published by the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales; check it before swimming.
Things to do
4 viewpoints and 54 playgrounds
Mapped within 2 km of the town in OpenStreetMap, against the typical UK town its size per resident. Named places are listed with directions; unnamed ones are only counted.
4Viewpoints3.9× towns its size5Hills and peaks4.9× towns its size3Nature reserves3× towns its size54Playgrounds2.3× towns its size2Campsites5Slipways
Every named place, with directions
Viewpoints 4
Little Tern viewpoint0.8 mi from town
DirectionsSplash Point1.0 mi from town
DirectionsPlus 2 viewpoints without a name on the map.
Hills and peaks 5
Bryn Llwyn0.1 mi from town
DirectionsSt Elmos Summer House235 m (771 ft) · 0.7 mi from town
DirectionsGraig Fawr153 m (502 ft) · 0.7 mi from town
DirectionsGraig-bach110 m (361 ft) · 0.9 mi from town
DirectionsCerrig Heilyn38 m (125 ft) · 1.2 mi from town
DirectionsNature reserves 3
Gronant Dunes Nature Reserve0.7 mi from town
DirectionsCoed Gronant0.2 ha · 0.8 mi from town
DirectionsMaes Hiraddug Nature Reserve1.0 ha · 1.2 mi from town
DirectionsPlaygrounds 54
Ffordd Idwal Play Areain town
DirectionsMaes Chwarae South Avenuein town
DirectionsPlus 52 playgrounds without a name on the map.
Campsites 2
Ffrith Beach Touring Caravan Parkin town
DirectionsAlbert Wilson Memorial Field0.0 mi from town
DirectionsSlipways 5
Plus 5 slipways without a name on the map.
Next door
The outdoors in nearby towns
The nearest towns of 1,000+ within 12 miles. Tap a town for its outdoors page.
MelidenDyserthRhylRhuddlanKinmel BaySt AsaphPrestatyn
ABCDOutdoors Grade
Meliden, 1.2 miles away, grades A+, the best next door: every resident lives within 400 m of a park.
Questions about the outdoors in Prestatyn
What is the biggest park in Prestatyn?
Frith Park, 17 ha (41 acres), with 4.3 km of path. Hillside Gardens (3.1 ha) is second. 5 named parks, gardens and playing fields are in the town or within 400 m of it.
Is Prestatyn near a National Park?
Yes. Snowdonia National Park begins 16 mi west of the town’s edge. It covers 2,140 km² and has been a National Park since 1951. The nearest protected landscape of any kind is the Bryniau Clwyd A Dyffryn Dyfrdwy/clwydian Range and Dee Valley National Landscape, at the edge of the town.
What are the best walks near Prestatyn?
4 waymarked walking routes pass within 2 km of the town, including the Wales Coast Path (North Wales) main route, North Wales Path and Offa's Dyke Path. Frith Park alone has 4.3 km of path.
How many people in Prestatyn live near a park?
92% of residents live within 400 m, about a 5-minute walk, of a public park, garden or playing field (Census 2021 output areas against OS Open Greenspace). The typical UK town is 83%.
When is the best time of year for walking in Prestatyn?
May to August: the longest days, the warmest afternoons and the least rain of the year, from the Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Is Prestatyn good for walking?
About average for paths: 2.9 km of footpath and right of way per square kilometre, more than 58% of UK towns. For park space per person it beats 75% (3.3 ha per 1,000 residents).
How is the Outdoors Grade worked out?
From five measures, each placed among UK towns of 1,000 or more: public green space per resident, the share living near a park, National Park or National Landscape within 5 km, footpaths per square kilometre, and the sea within 5 km. It is a character grade and isn’t part of Prestatyn’s overall grade.
Sources
Where Prestatyn’s outdoors figures come from
- Parks and green space: Ordnance Survey OS Open Greenspace (parks and gardens, playing fields, play spaces, and their access points). Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- National Parks and National Landscapes: Natural England and Natural Resources Wales boundaries, areas and designation dates, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Footpaths, walking routes, beaches and things to do: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License (ODbL), via Geofabrik, 16 October 2026.
- Historic parks, listed buildings and monuments: Historic England, National Heritage List for England, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Rain and temperature: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for the town; daylight calculated from its latitude.
- The sea: ONS Countries (December 2024) boundaries clipped to mean high water. Residents near a park: ONS Census 2021 output areas.
- Grade: TownRatings’ Outdoors Grade, ranked against UK towns only.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.