Montenegros berg, park för park och topp för topp

Nr. 1 · Nationalpark · 2 523 m

Durmitor

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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.

Nr. 2 · Nationalpark · 2 535 m

Prokletije

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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.

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Nr. 3 · Nationalpark · 1 749 m

Lovćen

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

Nr. 4 · Nationalpark · 2 139 m

Biogradska Gora

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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.

Nr. 5 · Nationalpark · 1 594 m

Lake Skadar

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

Nr. 6 · Topp · 2 523 m

Bobotov Kuk

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

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Nr. 7 · Topp · 2 535 m

Zla Kolata

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

Nr. 8 · Topp · 2 487 m

Kom Kučki

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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.

Nr. 9 · Topp · 2 313 m

Savin Kuk

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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.

Nr. 10 · Topp · 2 403 m

Hajla

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

Skidanläggning · 2 035 m

Kolašin 1600

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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.

Topp · 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..

Skidanläggning · 1 750 m

Kolašin 1450

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

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Topp · 1 748 m

Štirovnik

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

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Topp · 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.

Topp · 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.