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Three days in the Rožnov area

The town, the ridge and nature, a day for each. A long weekend that gives you a taste of every side of the Rožnov area.

Day 1 – Rožnov and Hradisko

≈ 5 h 5 min · 5,5 km

Getting your bearings in town: the church, the hill with the castle ruins and, in the afternoon, the town park with the lookout tower.

  1. The Church of All Saints

    20 min

    A fifty-metre tower above Rožnov • completed in 1752

  2. Villa Jaroněk

    15 min

    Where the Jaroněk brothers founded the Valašské muzeum

  3. The Hradisko nature trail

    1 h 15 min

    3 km

    A circuit taking in the castle ruins, old tree avenues and nine panels.

  4. Lunch in the centre

    1 h

  5. Rožnov park with its bandstand

    30 min

    The spa park Hájnice • a copy of the wooden bandstand of 1884

  6. In the footsteps of Dušan Samo Jurkovič and the spa era

    1 h

    2,5 km

    The paths through the park lead all the way up to the lookout tower – the climb is part of the trail.

  7. The Jurkovič lookout tower

    45 min

    Built from a Jurkovič design a hundred years old

Day 2 – Pustevny and Radhošť

≈ 5 h 40 min · 9 km

A whole day on the Radhošť ridge: the lodges, the statue of Radegast and the highest church in Czechia.

  1. A day at Pustevny and Radhošť

    5 h 40 min

    9 km · Places: 6

    The stops, the times and the alternative descent to Rožnov are all on the page for that day.

Day 3 – water, meadows and stone

≈ 6 h 5 min

The spring, the dam and the quarry in the morning; in the afternoon a two-kilometre climb to a peat meadow above the village.

  1. Drive to Horní Bečva

    25 min

  2. The source of the Bečva

    45 min

    The outflow of the Rožnovská Bečva • 38 km to the confluence

    A wooden shelter with a spout stands in a steep beech wood below Vysoká. From here the water runs 38 km as the Rožnovská Bečva.

  3. The Horní Bečva dam

    1 h

    The only one built of dozens of interwar dams

  4. The lookouts above the quarry

    45 min

    A footbridge over the quarry edge and three cubes on top • 2021

    A circuit of the quarry with three lookout cubes and a footbridge jutting out over the quarry face.

  5. Lunch

    1 h

  6. Kudlačena

    2 h 10 min

    A peaty hillside meadow where impermeable clay retains water

    A peat meadow on the slope above the Dížená brook – impermeable clay holds the water here. From the dam it is two kilometres uphill, about 50 minutes on foot. The time given includes the way back.