Going to Tatranska Lomnica

What to do in Tatranska Lomnica

by Candyce H. Stapen

The Tatras National Park, the mountainous countryside stretching along eastern Slovakia, has all the hallmarks of a fairytale forest: towering fir trees, rushing mountain streams, cascading waterfalls and rocky summits with top-of-the-world views. Even your most hard-to-please teen, the one with the blasé, done-that attitude, is likely to break into smiles on the trail.

Established in 1949, the Tatras National Park ranks as the oldest national park in the Slovak Republic (also known as Slovakia). Part of Europe's Carpathian range, the Tatras stretch across the Slovak-Poland border, with about 20 percent of the peaks being located in Poland and the remaining 80 percent situated in Slovakia within the national park. The Tatras fall into three regions— Západné Tatry (the Western...

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