Hiking trails
What to do in your leisure time in Karlovy Vary? We recommend especially walks into the countryside. They are like soft balsam for the soul in these hurried and busy times. The walks make part of the spa curative stays and are prescribed by the spa doctors to their patients as further spa treatment. The traveler Humboldt wrote that the forests of Karlovy Vary are the nicest natural park in Europe. In all cases, the forests of Karlovy Vary also cure: through their beauty and silence they help the springs which heal hundred meters lower.
Net of forest paths began to grow mainly in romanticism as the nature was found again by the people. Glory of paths culminated in 19th/20th century, in the times of first view-towers, forest restaurants and tourist clubs. They have not lost their charm up to the present days. They are waiting for you.
Deer Jump lookout
Object type: wooden lookout gazebo
Location: rock knot at Deer Jump lookout west of the center of Karlovy Vary.
Period of construction: 1804
Deer Jump lookout is the oldest lookout structure in Karlovy Vary. In 1804, a wooden gazebo was built by Mayer, a merchant and native of Karlovy Vary, after whom Mayer’s gloriette is named.
How to get there: You can get to the lookout on forest paths around the chamois statue directly from the center of Karlovy Vary from Hot Spring, or you can use the Diana cable car to the Deer Jump lookout intermediate station and go around the Myslivna sanatorium across Peter’s lookout to the Deer Jump lookout.
Goethe’s Lookout
Object type: A Pseudo-Gothic restaurant with a lookout tower
Location: Height of Eternal Life approx. 1.5 kilometres from Karlovy Vary.
Period of construction: 1888 and 1889.
This magnificent pseudo-Gothic brick building with a lookout tower and a cruise restaurant was built between 1888 and 1889 according to a project by prominent Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer at the Height of Eternal Life in the woods 2 km east of Karlovy Vary.
Diana Observation Tower
Object type: a massive-brick lookout tower with hidden wooden walkway.
Location: Friendship Height
Period of construction: 1912 till 1914
The famous Karlovy Vary lookout tower Diana, which is surrounded by spa forests, directly encourages health or romantic walks. Marked footpaths start right at Diana, which will take you to gazebos with a view of Karlovy Vary, to Deer Jump lookout and other monuments or memorials related to the history of Karlovy Vary.
Many other visitors take the opportunity to go to Diana by cable car and choose a walk to get back to the city. You can choose the route on mapy.cz according to the difficulty of the terrain and the length of the walk. There are forest trails and paths with paved surface. Everything in the beautiful environment of the spa forest in the fresh air. Diana is therefore very popular with fans of Nordic walking.
For more information please visit www.dianakv.cz/en/
Mayer’s Gloriette
Mayer’s Gloriette
Object type: wooden lookout gazebo
Location: rock promontory at Deer Jump lookout west of the centre of Karlovy Vary
Period of construction: 1804
Accessibility: freely accessible
Wooden observation gazebo Mayer’s Gloriet, which offers a unique bird’s eye view, to which you can climb forest paths and stone steps around the statue of a chamois directly from the center of Karlovy Vary from Hot Spring.
Saint Linhart
What Saint Linhart center offers?
- Natural rope center Saint Linhart
- Branald’s path – a path with animal silhouettes
- Tree houses
- Game reserve
– European Fallow Deer (Dama dama)
– Wild boar (Sus scrofa)
– Dybowski’s red deer (Cervus nippon dybowski) - Information center and cafe
- Dendrological trail