Start: Begin at the Iron Gate car park. Follow the brown signs for Moel Famau Country Park, off the A494 Mold - Ruthin Road. Iron Gate car park is on the right at the top GR 162605. Go through the kissing gate and head off up the Offa's Dyke Path.
Points of interest: Moel y Gaer hillfort sits on a projecting ridge over the Vale of Clwyd. It is one of an impressive chain of hillforts on the Clwydian Range.
The hillforts date from 600BC to 43AD. High, vertical ramparts looming over deep ditches surrounded the forts, a fearful challenge to any attacker looking up from the valley below.
Enjoy the seldom walked paths and then climb steeply up to the Offa's Dyke Path and Jubilee Tower crossing an old drovers' road on the way.
The Jubilee Tower was built to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of George III. Storms in 1862 reduced the impressive Egyptian-style monument to the ruins that you can see today. The views from the top are spectacular in all directions.
Finally, enjoy a well earned stroll downhill back to the car park.
More info: This walk is part of a series exploring the Offa's Dyke Path and is published with permission from Denbighshire Countryside Service which has this and other guides to walks to download on its website: www.denbighshire.gov.uk
