Borth is a small village with a long stretch of sand stretching northwards to the Dyfi Estuary. The beach close to the village is Borth Beach, no suppose there and then extends into Ynyslas Beach.
Borth Beach is sand with a pebble bank at the high tide mark, with rock pools intersected by groynes providing good natural windbreaks. From the 1st of May to the 30th of September, dogs are restricted from the Youth Hostel on the High Street south to RNLI station and from the RNLI station to the cliffs beneath Cliff Road.
Skeletal stumps of oak, birch, willow, hazel and pine trees, remnants of the Forest of Borth, which was buried under peat, sand and saltwater more than 4,500 years ago, and can be best seen at low tide along the beach.
Ynyslas Beach, the beach’s northern end, includes the sand dunes of the 2,000-hectare Dyfi National Nature Reserve. As well as the dunes in the estuary, large areas of mudflats, sandbanks and saltmarsh provide feeding and roosting areas for wetland birds.
Dogs are allowed within the Dyfi National Nature Reserve and on Ynyslas Beach. Within fenced-off grazing areas, dogs must be kept on leads.
Facilities at Borth Beach include parking and lifeguards in the summer. At Ynyslas Beach you have a small car park and toilets at the visitor centre.
