Montenegro’s mountains for the views
13 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.
No. 2 · National park · 2,535 m
Prokletije
Snow on 71% of January days
The most alpine ground in the country and the least visited: limestone walls above the Grebaje and Ropojana valleys, and Montenegro’s highest summit, Zla Kolata at 2,535 m, on the Albanian border.
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. 6 · Summit · 2,523 m
Bobotov Kuk
Snow on 69% of January days
Durmitor’s best-known summit and the one most people mean when they say they climbed a mountain in Montenegro.
Nearby, not the summitNo. 7 · Summit · 2,535 m
Zla Kolata
Snow on 74% of January days
The highest point in Montenegro, at 2,535 m, on the ridge that forms the Albanian border above the Ropojana valley.
No. 8 · Summit · 2,487 m
Kom Kučki
Snow on 65% of January days
The Komovi are three summits that stand almost alone above the meadows between Andrijevica and Kolašin, and Kom Kučki is the highest of them at 2,487 m.
No. 9 · Summit · 2,313 m
Savin Kuk
Snow on 72% of January days
Žabljak’s ski mountain and a straightforward summer summit: the chairlifts take the first 700 m of ascent in winter, and in summer the walk up from Black Lake is the standard half-day from the town.
No. 10 · Summit · 2,403 m
Hajla
Snow on 67% of January days
The mountain above Rožaje, on the Kosovo border, with a long grassy ridge and a sharp drop on its northern side.
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.
Summit · 1,894 m
Zubački Kabao
The highest point of Orjen, the massif directly behind Herceg Novi, and one of the strangest places in the country: a bare limestone desert of sinkholes and karst at 1,900 m, an hour above a subtropical coast..
Nearby, not the summitSummit · 1,748 m
Štirovnik
The true summit of Lovćen, a hundred metres above the mausoleum that everyone drives to and almost nobody walks.
- 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.
Summit · 1,594 m
Rumija
The ridge that separates Lake Skadar from the Adriatic, which means the summit has the sea on one side and the lake on the other — the single best view in the south of the country.