Brecon Beacons National Park, Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, Wales,

Street View of Black Mountain | Map of Black Mountain location

The Black Mountain is not a mountain but a mountain range in the south west of the Brecon Beacons National Park. Its highest point is Fan Brycheiniog at 802m. The hills stretch from Ammanford in the south-west to Sennybridge in the north-east. There are spectacular north and east facing sandstone ridges in the north-east of the range. Indeed the vista of Fan Brycheiniog towering over the lake Llyn y Fan Fawr is probably the Brecon Beacons most memorable panorama and enjoyed by many walking the Beacons Way Trail.

The Black Mountain should not be confused with the Black Mountains in the east of the National Park, on the Welsh-English border, nor with a 702m summit in those same Black Mountains that is confusingly also called Black Mountain.

The Black Mountain is part of the Fforest Fawr Geopark. The Geopark is named after Fforest Fawr [Great Forest in Welsh] an area that extends from the edge of the Black Mountain in the west to the A470 Brecon to Merthyr Tydfil road in the east. ....