Foot routes along Chernogora

• Routes we offer:

• Verhnya Dzembronya - mount Smotrych - mount Pop Ivan -mount Brebeneskoul - lake Brebeneskoul - meteorological stasion under mountain Pogygevs'ka - hostel "Zaroslyak" - mount Goverla - waterfall Gook - hostel "Koz'menstchyk"

• Lazestchyna - mount Petros - mount Goverla - waterfall Gook - lake Verhnye - mount Shpyci - mount Kostrycya -nek Boukovets' (49 kms, 4 days).


Nek Chernogora is a main point of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Here it is possible to meet alluvial of stones and pathless thickets of Alpine pine as it was in Gorgany; boundless meadows (such called "polonyna") and lakes of an glacial origin like in Svydovets region; rich fur-tree woods and blossoming honey glades as in Beskidy.

Chernogora is a highest mountainous area of Eastern Carpathians. All Ukrainian mountains, which are over 2000m are located just here. Separating Gorgany and Marmaroshsky Carpathians Chernogora streches for a distance of 60 kms. from Yablonicky nek to mount Pop Ivan (means a mount of a priest Ivan) .

Northern part of Chernogora (about 30 kms.) extents along polonyna of Kookol' nek, covered by dense forests mountain Kozmes'ka (1572m) and after deep pass suddenly rises to the highest top of Ukraine mountain Goverla (2061m). One of the basic Chernogora's ridges turns southeastwards from Goverla to splendid mount of Pop Ivan and inclusive of mountain Petros another one streches westward.

Chernogora also includes ridge Kostrich (the highest top Kostricya-1586m), from which you can see the majestic panorama of all main mountain-mass from Goverla to Pop Ivan.

Monuments of a nature:
- unique greenery of the Alpine and subAlpine mountain zones;
- beautiful waterfall situated at the riverhead of Proot between mountains Goverla and Breskoul;
- high-mountainous lakes of an glacial origin: Brebeneskoul, Nesamovyte, Marysheika etc.;
- rocky brows on a hillside of mountain Shpicy and the picturesque rocky ridges Large Kozly and Small Kozly;
- trough of an glacial origin : Gadgina, Kyzy Ulogy etc.
The main sights:
- well preserved wooden Goucul churches of 17-18 centuries in villages Yasynya, Lazestchyna, Vorokhta including most ancient one Rizdvyana (Cristmas) church in village Kryvorivnya;
- remains of an ancient Jewish cemetery in Verhovyna;
- monument " The Centre of Europe " (1880 year) located in 18 km. southward from town of Rakhiv;
- " White Elephant " - the ruins of astronomical observatory built in 1938.