One of the best-loved routes in the Clwydian Range links its two best-known summits in a single loop: Foel Fenlli, with its well-preserved Iron Age ramparts, and Moel Famau, the highest point in the range at 554 metres and the site of the roofless Jubilee Tower. Walking the ridge between the two gives a genuine sense of why this landscape became known as a chain of hillforts — the high ground here was clearly valued, and defended, for thousands of years.
The route typically follows Offa's Dyke Path along the open ridge, through heather moorland that gives way to grassier slopes lower down, with views that on a clear day extend across the Vale of Clwyd to Snowdonia and out to the North Wales coast. Most walkers start from Moel Famau Country Park's main car park, climbing first to the Jubilee Tower before continuing south along the ridge to Foel Fenlli and back, or arranging a linear walk between the two main car parks at Moel Famau and Bwlch Penbarra.
It's a genuinely varied day on the hill — two summits, two hillforts, and one ruined Georgian monument — and one of the most accessible proper upland walks anywhere near Denbigh.
The ridge walk linking Moel Famau to its neighbouring summits is widely considered one of the finest short upland walks in North East Wales, following the high, open line of the Clwydian Range with near-constant views over the Vale of Clwyd to one side and the Dee valley and English border country to the other. The going underfoot is generally good, with well-maintained paths making the ridge accessible to reasonably fit walkers without technical hillwalking experience.
Along the way, walkers pass several of the range's Iron Age hillforts in quick succession, giving the ridge both scenic and historical interest, before arriving at the Jubilee Tower on Moel Famau itself — a natural high point, literally and figuratively, for any visit to the hills above Denbigh.