Plas Menai

It is situated on the mainland side of the Menai Strait, and is approximately 3 miles East of Caernarfon, North Wales.

Like Plas y Brenin, Plas Menai was intended to have a dry ski slope, even to the extent of building a small hill, some 80 feet high, however this was eventually shelved at the request of business interests in Llandudno, which had its own quite lengthy dry ski slope and were somewhat negative about competition.

In 2006 the hill that was to be the dry ski slope was successfully converted into a mountain biking training facility and has been called "Trac Jackson" in memory of its first principal.

The architects Bowen Dann Davies Partnership won the Gold Medal for Architecture at the National Eisteddfod of Wales of 1985 for their work on Plas Menai.

[1] Plas Menai is owned by Sport Wales and provides general and specialist training courses in sailing keel boats and dinghies.