Les montagnes du Monténégro, parc par parc et sommet par sommet

N° 1 · Parc national · 2 523 m

Durmitor

De la neige 69 % des jours de janvier

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.

N° 2 · Parc national · 2 535 m

Prokletije

De la neige 71 % des jours de janvier

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.

À proximité, pas le sommet

N° 3 · Parc national · 1 749 m

Lovćen

The black mountain the country is named after, and the one every visitor sees from the Kotor serpentines.

N° 4 · Parc national · 2 139 m

Biogradska Gora

De la neige 57 % des jours de janvier

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.

N° 5 · Parc national · 1 594 m

Lake Skadar

The largest lake in the Balkans and the only one of the five parks that is mostly water.

N° 6 · Sommet · 2 523 m

Bobotov Kuk

De la neige 69 % des jours de janvier

Durmitor’s best-known summit and the one most people mean when they say they climbed a mountain in Montenegro.

À proximité, pas le sommet

N° 7 · Sommet · 2 535 m

Zla Kolata

De la neige 74 % des jours de janvier

The highest point in Montenegro, at 2,535 m, on the ridge that forms the Albanian border above the Ropojana valley.

N° 8 · Sommet · 2 487 m

Kom Kučki

De la neige 65 % des jours de janvier

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.

N° 9 · Sommet · 2 313 m

Savin Kuk

De la neige 72 % des jours de janvier

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.

N° 10 · Sommet · 2 403 m

Hajla

De la neige 67 % des jours de janvier

The mountain above Rožaje, on the Kosovo border, with a long grassy ridge and a sharp drop on its northern side.

Domaine skiable · 2 035 m

Kolašin 1600

De la neige 62 % des jours de janvier

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.

Sommet · 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..

Domaine skiable · 1 750 m

Kolašin 1450

De la neige 62 % des jours de janvier

The older and smaller of the two Kolašin areas, on the same Bjelasica flank, with gentler terrain and a shorter lift system.

À proximité, pas le sommet

Sommet · 1 748 m

Štirovnik

The true summit of Lovćen, a hundred metres above the mausoleum that everyone drives to and almost nobody walks.

À proximité, pas le sommet

Sommet · 1 657 m

Jezerski Vrh

The second summit of Lovćen and the one that carries Nje-goš’s mausoleum, reached from the car park by a tunnel and a long flight of steps cut into the mountain.

Sommet · 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.