Kněhyně–The Greiffka hunting lodge

Ridge route • red • moderateOn foot

The Kněhyně–The Greiffka hunting lodge section is 0.5 km long.

Whole route
  1. KněhyněKněhyněstart • 1 146 m a.s.l.Kněhyně (1,257 m) is the third highest mountain in the Beskids and the higher of the two summits of the Kněhyně – Čertův mlýn national nature reserve. The summit itself forms the core of the reserve: conservationists closed the trail to it in 2007 and entry is banned.

    red waymarks • the end of the walk

    A few dozen metres further along the red waymarks towards Kněhyně, the masonry of the lost Greiffka hunting lodge stands right beside the path.

  2. The Greiffka hunting lodgeThe Greiffka hunting lodge- km from the startThe dry stone masonry of a ground floor in the saddle between Kněhyně and Čertův mlýn. Local accounts say a hunting lodge stood here in the second half of the 19th century, named after Greiff, the manager of the archbishopric forests.