📜 Former slate quarries in Nízký Jeseník, now a romantic natural landscape.
🏞️ Explore mining pits, waste heaps, and picturesque quarry lakes, including the popular Šífr Flooded Quarry.
🚶♀️ Explore remnants of historical slate mining
🌲 Enjoy a romantic natural setting amidst birch, pine, and spruce
🏊♀️ Swim in quarry lakes (at your own risk)
🤿 Dive in the popular Šífr Flooded Quarry
🏕️ Camp under the open sky with bonfires and tramping songs
🏞️ Hike a small ~3 km circuit around the flooded quarries
⚠️ No marked tourist trails in the immediate vicinity
🚧 Swimming is at your own risk
🚂 By train: Opava - Svobodné Heřmanice line.
🚗 By car: From Mladecko, follow the railway line and Hvozdnice river to Jakartovice. An asphalt road branches off to a small parking lot near the forest.
🚌 By bus: Accessible to surrounding villages like Svobodné Heřmanice, Hlavnice, Mladecko, Deštné, Bohdanovice, Staré Heřmínovy.
A small parking lot is available near the forest.
Swimming is possible at one's own risk in the quarry lakes.
The Šífr Flooded Quarry is a popular destination for divers from Opava.
A small, approximately three-kilometer circuit around the flooded quarries is suitable for hiking.