A HOLIDAY accommodation site has selected Snowdonia as the UK's top national park to visit this summer.

To celebrate the UK's National Park Week which ran from April 15 to 22, Brecon Beacons Holiday Cottages has compared things such as size, popularity, permissible footpaths for walking, highest mountains, castles, and dark skies to name the ultimate top 10.

Welsh national park Snowdonia took the top spot.

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Here is how the top 10 national parks list looks: 

  • 1. Snowdonia
  • 2. Yorkshire Dales
  • 3. Lake District
  • 4. Brecon Beacons
  • 5. Peak District
  • 6. Cairngorms
  • 7. South Downs
  • 8. Loch Lomond and the Trossachs
  • 9. Northumberland
  • 10. North York Moors Snowdonia

According to data pulled from National Biodiversity Network Atlas, Snowdonia is the most biodiverse national park with 14,580 distinct species and it also scored highly for walking, mountains and its Google review rating.