Montenegro’s mountains for families
7 of the sixteen subjects in the atlas. Ordered as the atlas orders them — the ranked tier first, then tallest.
No. 1 · National park · 2,523 m
Durmitor
Snow on 69% of January days
The massif that made Montenegro a mountain country: forty-eight summits over 2,000 m around a plateau of glacial lakes, inscribed by UNESCO in 1980.
Nearby, not the summitNo. 3 · National park · 1,749 m
Lovćen
The black mountain the country is named after, and the one every visitor sees from the Kotor serpentines.
No. 4 · National park · 2,139 m
Biogradska Gora
Snow on 57% of January days
One of the last primeval forests in Europe, and the reason the park exists: trees that have never been cut, some of them five hundred years old, around a glacial lake you can walk round in an hour on the flat.
No. 5 · National park · 1,594 m
Lake Skadar
The largest lake in the Balkans and the only one of the five parks that is mostly water.
Ski area · 2,035 m
Kolašin 1600
Snow on 62% of January days
Montenegro’s main ski area, on the Bjelasica slopes above Kolašin, with a gondola up from the valley and the country’s most reliable lift-served snow.
Ski area · 1,750 m
Kolašin 1450
Snow on 62% of January days
The older and smaller of the two Kolašin areas, on the same Bjelasica flank, with gentler terrain and a shorter lift system.
- Nearby, not the summit
Summit · 1,657 m
Jezerski Vrh
The second summit of Lovćen and the one that carries Njegoš’s mausoleum, reached from the car park by a tunnel and a long flight of steps cut into the mountain.