Free entry for everyone; no membership card is needed.
No charge for anyone.
Cadw's access guide names the free car park adjacent to the amphitheatre on Broadway, opposite the National Roman Legion Museum, with designated accessible bays; it is Newport City Council's coach and car park, open all hours, with public toilets including accessible cubicles at its bottom end. Reviewers confirm it is free with space for coaches and motorhomes. A second free council car park serves the Roman barracks off Cold Bath Road, 440 m away; the Roman Baths' car park at the Bull Inn is pay and display.
Driving pin: the Broadway car park, 92 m from Cadw's marker in the arena. By road: the B4596 to Caerleon from the M4 (junction 25 westbound, 26 eastbound). National Cycle Network route 88 passes the site.
Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre was built around AD 90 to entertain the legionaries of the fortress of Isca, where wooden benches for up to 6,000 spectators looked down on gladiatorial combat and exotic wild animals. Out of use by the third century or later, it survived as a grassy earthwork that Geoffrey of Monmouth called King Arthur's Round Table, until excavation in 1926 and 1927 revealed the most complete Roman amphitheatre in Britain: the stone bases of the seating banks round an oval arena, with entrance passages, stairs and a possible shrine. Visitors walk all round the structure and down into the arena, with the free Roman barracks and the ticketed Roman Baths a few minutes away and the National Roman Legion Museum opposite. Reviewers find it large, impressive and peaceful, with free parking beside it, and warn that it is muddy after rain. Dogs on short leads are welcome, and National Cycle Network route 88 from Newport passes the site.
The ground at the amphitheatre may become slippery and waterlogged following periods of wet weather. During such conditions, and in instances of inclement weather, the site may be temporarily closed to ensure visitor safety and to protect the historic landscape. See the official page for the full notice.
Free entry
1 March to 30 September 10am to 5pm; 1 October to 28 February 10am to 4pm; last admission 30 minutes before closing; closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January. The site is unstaffed; Cadw's staff are at the Roman Baths (03000 252239). Visitor notice (17 October 2026): the ground may become slippery and waterlogged after wet weather and the site may be closed temporarily in such conditions, so check with the Roman Baths before a winter visit.
Terrain level 2, easy, in good weather: the ground is grassed and uneven in places with numerous steep grassy slopes, and the grass path into the arena is steep, so it may not suit mobility aids; some of the steps down to the arena are incomplete and there are concealed unprotected drops of up to five metres at the edges, so keep away from them. Public toilets with accessible cubicles are at the bottom of the Broadway car park and in the National Roman Legion Museum opposite (free entry); no cafe or shop at the monument. Drones are not permitted.
Dogs: Dogs on short leads are welcome throughout the amphitheatre, an open-air site with no upper levels. The free Roman barracks, a few minutes' walk away along the flat path beside the school, carry the same short-lead rule.
Photo: The grassy oval arena of Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre, with stone-faced seating banks and an entrance gap, and wooded hills beyond. Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Roman_amphitheatre_at_Caerleon_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3971880.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.
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3.7 miles (6 km), about 78% traffic-free and mostly asphalt, along the River Usk from Newport city centre (Lyne Road) to Caerleon, passing over the railway and round the football pitch onto The Fosse to the amphitheatre and barracks; shared walking and cycling route. Free; free parking at the Broadway car park.
