📜 A protected landscape area in the Czech Republic, renowned for its dramatic geological formations and diverse ecosystems.
🏞️ Features deep forests, river valleys, and historical sites like Lichnice Castle ruins, offering a rich blend of nature and history.
🚶♀️ Explore numerous trails for hiking and cycling, including specific routes like the 77 km Geological Points of Interest, 45 km Cycling to the Dams, and a 12 km hike to Lichnice Castle ruins.
🌳 Discover wild forests, peat meadows with orchids, sunny slopes with gentians, old orchards, and the ancient Polom primeval forest.
🦅 Observe diverse wildlife including black storks, trout, over 75 mollusc species, 1200 butterfly species, and 283 vertebrate species.
🏰 Visit the romantic ruins of Lichnice Castle and explore other historical sites like Celtic oppidum remains and medieval castles.
⛷️ Enjoy winter sports with two ski slopes and lifts available.
⚠️ Polom Nature Reserve Trail Rerouting (May 2023 - 2033): The green tourist trail has been rerouted away from the Polom Nature Reserve (Prales Polom) due to high risk of falling dead trees after a bark beetle infestation. Visitors are asked not to enter the nature reserve for their safety.
🚫 Lichnice National Nature Reserve: Entry is prohibited outside marked tourist trails year-round due to nesting protected bird species and increased risk of falling trees from the no-intervention regime.
🏛️ Managed by Správa CHKO Železné hory (Administration Office).
📚 Offers guided excursions for schools and the public on topics like botany, nature conservation, landscape changes, and zoology.
⏰ Administration Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday: 8:00–17:00.
⛰️ Established in 1991, covering 284 km² with highest peaks Vestec and Spálava.
🌍 Boasts the most complex geological structure in Europe, forming part of the Geopark Železné hory.
🏞️ Features a dramatic fault ridge with numerous peaks and ravines, including the largest and most beautiful Lovětínská and Hedvíkovská ravines.
🌊 Includes the rocky Doubrava river valley and the popular Seč reservoir with Oheb nature reserve and castle ruins.
🌳 Home to 27 small protected areas, including 1 national nature reserve, 15 nature reserves, and 10 natural monuments.
🌲 Highlights include Polom Nature Reserve with its former beech-fir primeval forests, and Lichnice National Nature Reserve with untouched forests.
🌰 Visit Kaštanka, an edible chestnut orchard in Nasavrky.