Films set at Llyn Gwynant

Llyn Gwynant Campsite has been used in many films and TV programs. We have provided a range of services in addition to a beautiful location, including transport, security and construction.  If you are interested in using the site as a location for filming, please contact us.  Amongst the feature films that have used locations at Llyn Gwynant are:

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword a film directed by Guy Ritchie was released in 2017, and had many scenes filmed on the campsite, as well as being a base for the film crew and actors filming scenes in other parts of Snowdonia.  Campsite locations used included the stone bridge for a scene featuring Arthur washing in the river and the beach for a horse scene with Arthur riding his horse backwards.

Patagonia was a Welsh film made in 2010 directed by Marc Evans. A young Welsh couple travel to Argentina to work on their relationship and return to their Welsh roots. Part of the campsite was used to be a “campsite” in the film, and some stunning boat scenes were filmed on the lake.  This is a very beautiful film.

Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life in 2003 saw Llyn Gwynant campsite become a Chinese village where Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) battles her adversary Chen Lo.  Some lake and mountain scenes have been transformed by computer-generated imaging to resemble mountainous China. Llyn Gwynant was the main Welsh location but the production also brought surprise benefits to others including 30 of the Chinese community in Caernarfon who were extras and a local farmer who supplied chickens, geese and a mule.

Merlin was a 1997 feature film partly filmed at Llyn Gwynant, where the morraine behind our toilet block hosted fabulous Camelot, with Sam Neill playing Merlin as a flesh-and-blood fellow of real passion, powerless to undo the spell of a rival who has imprisoned Merlin’s great love, Nimue.

Merlin of the Crystal Cave was a 1991 mini-series and film tellling the story of Camelot and King Arthur from the perspective of Merlin, as he grows to become the greatest enchanter legend has ever known. A crystal cave unlocks his mystical gifts of prophecy, powers of conjuring and herbal healing, and Merlin sets off on a search for his father, a quest that takes him from foreign shores to palace intrigues and bloody battlefields and thrusts him into the centre of the birth of the British Empire.

Many shorter TV productions and adverts have also been filmed at the campsite including the BBCs “Coming down the mountain” and a series of Visit Wales advertisements from 2017 to 2019 feature the campsite, lake, kayaking and jumping off Elephant Rock.