Hiking tours Vrchlabi

All-day excursion - TO ČERNÁ HORA

Take the bus from Vrchabi to Janske Lazne and then take the cableway to Cerna hora (Black Mountain). From Sokolska bouda set out on the red trail to the Mir (Peace) chalet via Prazska bouda (4.5 km). After around 500 m you can turn to the left along the blue trail and return along the Idina trail via Dolni Dvur to Vrchlabi (around 12 km). More ambitious hikers can continue from the Mir chalet along the red trail, via Lyzarska bouda and Lisci hora to Bufet na rozcesti (10 km] and then take the red trail to the lefl to Zadni Renerovky and Lahrovy boudy as far as Svedsky Kriz (Swedish Cross). Near the cross, where Swedish king Gustav Adolf is said to have rested, turn to the lefl onto the green trail and through Hanapetrova paseka on the yellow to Dolni Dvur and the church. Following the yellow signs will take you to the crossroods above Dolni Dvur, where you should turn to the right onto the blue trail. It is around 22 km as far as Vrchlabi. You can, however, also set out along the red trail via Zadni Renerovky to Hribeci boudy and end the walk of around 23 kilometres at the quarry in Strazne, from where a bus back to Vrchlabi goes at around 5 p.m. Alternatively you can walk for another 6 km to Vrchlabi via Strazne.

All-day trip to Strážné

From Vrchlabi by bus bound for Spindleruv Mlyn, get off at Michluv Mlyn. From there along green trail to junction at Nad Michlovym Mlynem (l km) and up the valley of Drevarsky potok (stream) to the junction of paths above Krasna plan (l.5 km). You can continue your walk along green trail through Rybnični and Jezerni domky straight to Strazný (2 km), whereas those more eager will climb along blue trail over Koprivnik (1046 m a. s. l.) to the Bouda na Plani (chalet on the plain), where German officers planned Hitler´s assassination in 1944. Follow green trail through the Plan and Klasterka as far as parting of ways at U Klinovych bud (7 km) and return by the new Fries´path over the hillside of Svetly vrch ( l 315 m a. s. l) past Friesovy boudy (chalets). In the last part of the path you pass the Svedsky kriz (Swedish Cross) - a monument in the place where, allegedly, the Swedish King Gustav Adolf rested. The blue trail is continued in red, which will guide you to Vrchlabi. Then past Hribeci boudy (chalets) to the Lom (quarry) at Strazný (5 km), from where both tracks continue together to a gentle upward slope along the road (2.5 km) to the square. Then by a stony path you run on down the hill onto the road between Spindleruv Mlyn and Vrchlabi (l.5 km) and on into the centre, where you will be offered their own beer while having a rest in the Pivovarska basta (hotel cum brewery). You get to to the square after another l.5 km. Total distance is ll or 21 km.