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Lesser Poland Voivodeship

powiat nowotarski

Nowy Targ

Chapel at Łapszanka Pass – View of Osturňa loop from Nowy Targ

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Poland

Lesser Poland Voivodeship

powiat nowotarski

Nowy Targ

Chapel at Łapszanka Pass – View of Osturňa loop from Nowy Targ

Hard

4.6

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Chapel at Łapszanka Pass – View of Osturňa loop from Nowy Targ

05:30

78.0km

990m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 1, 2026

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Cycling is not permitted along parts of this route

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After 77.9 km for 229 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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20.8 km

Viewpoint

22.3 km

View of the Tatra Mountains from Dursztyn

Highlight • Viewpoint

Dursztyn is said to be the poorest village of Polish Spisz. Well, an excellent location with 360º panoramas is not what would bring money until recent years. It has an interesting location, between gentle Beskidy-type mountain of Grandeus (with the big transmission antenna) and steep slopes of typically Pieniny-like Żar, the highest peak of Spisz-Pieniny (882m). Just as the other Spisz / Zips villages, it original name is of German origin and it means… a Hard Rock. The scenic cycloway is to be finished until June 2018; you will see herds of sheep on the right (if coming from Niedzica) - if you’d like to buy some sheep cheese or zentyca - sheep milk whey (a liquid left after the production of cottage cheese). There is also a shop in the centre, off the path.

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31.7 km

Chapel at Łapszanka Pass

Highlight • Religious Site

From wherever you're coming, it's been a tough uphill to come here. But once you see the view, you know it was worth it. This small chapel was built by the people from Łapszanka village (north down the valley). It was believed that these chapels (equipped with a bell) were able to protect from the storms, they were used (the bell was ringed) when storm clouds were coming so that people that were working in the fields could have time to find a shelter. In 1967 a man was striked by a lightning when ringing the bell. There is a copy of Our Lady of Czestochowa image inside the chapel. It is one of very few remaining buildings of this type in the whole territory of Sub-Tatra regions.

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34.1 km

View of Osturňa

Highlight • Viewpoint

Turn to Lapszanka direction is pretty hidden, switch to lower gear, nasty 19% is waiting in the beginning.

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35.6 km

Traditional Wooden Houses of Osturňa

Highlight • Historical Site

You’re rushing down or sweating uphill, but this place is worth a stop (before the further downhill or further uphill). Also, Osturňa is 9km long :-) The name of the village originates from German (Asthorn), but it was later re-funded by the Rusyns (Lemko people) and nowadays is their westernmost settlement. Osturňa is separated from the rest of Slovakia by the mountain ridges. Osturniansky Potok (Osturňa River) enters Poland just behind the village, in Kacwin. Both villages belong to the same region - Spisz/ Spiš that in 1918 was split between two newborn countries - Poland and Czechoslovakia. What an enigma.
Osturňa’s architecture - traditional wooden houses - is protected by the Slovak government. In the village you can visit the only Orthodox church along the Tatravelo route. 84% of the population declare themselves Orthodox. They are the descendants of the Rusyns (Ruthenians, Lemkos), now an official NATIONAL minority in Slovakia, but their history is complex, their distinct identity was never officially accepted by the countries they lived in (Poland, Russia, Austro-Hungary, Ukraine).
As mentioned, Osturňa is the westernmost settlement of the Lemkos. They are traditionally Orthodox and use the Cyrillic script. Sadly, after 1947, no Lemko villages survived north from the Carpathian mountains (on the Polish side and also in Ukraine, further east). They were victims of the Operation Vistula (Operacja Wisła in Polish) which meant a relocation of some 140.000 people from their homes in Bieszczady and Beskidy mountains to territories gained on Germany, some 400 - 500 km further west. Its aim was to get rid of the partisans groups that kept fighting against the Soviets after WW2 by relocating and dividing them. At least, in the communist Poland many of the Lemkos improved their life quality (by receiving post-German, generally bigger farms, brick houses, running water) - a contrary to what happened to the Lemkos within Soviet Ukraine who, in the same period, were deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia and forced to an extreme poverty.
From the seven nations that formed Sub-Tatra regions (German-Saxon, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Gypsy, Jews, Ruthenians) only four groups are still here nowadays. Local Lemkos are the fourth, the smallest group (after the Polish, Slovak and Gypsies).
In Osturňa, don’t miss the pub (nº 159, Jan Pavlik, Pri Mlyne). You’ll feel like back in the Soviet 80-ies.

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60.9 km

View from the bridge over the Białka Gorge

Highlight • Viewpoint

73.8 km

Bór na Czerwonem Nature Reserve

Highlight (Segment) • Natural Monument

The Bór nad Czerwonym reserve is located on the northern edge of Nowy Targ and protects a unique raised peat bog with a characteristic marsh forest.
You can drive along the gravel road on the eastern side of the reserve, or along designated paths and wooden footbridges through the middle - but I do not recommend doing this after rain, because there are many muddy places.

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75.5 km

Bridge Overlooking the Dunajec River

Highlight • Bridge

This place can be considered the official beginning of the adventure.

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75.5 km

White Dunajec in Nowy Targ

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The bridge over the Biały Dunajec in Nowy Targ.
The Biały Dunajec is a river in Poland, a right tributary of the Dunajec. It is formed at an altitude of about 730 m above sea level in Poronin from the confluence of the Zakopianka and Poroniec. Then the Biały Dunajec flows through the town of Biały Dunajec, Szaflary and Nowy Targ, where at an altitude of about 577 m above sea level it joins the Czarny Dunajec, giving rise to the Dunajec River.

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78.0 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

22.4 km

21.4 km

17.4 km

13.4 km

3.27 km

171 m

Surfaces

59.0 km

10.4 km

5.72 km

1.42 km

843 m

618 m

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Highest point (940 m)

Lowest point (560 m)

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Tuesday 14 July

22°C

13°C

81 %

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Chapel at Łapszanka Pass – View of Osturňa loop from Nowy Targ

View of the Tatra Mountains from Dursztyn

Chapel at Łapszanka Pass

View of Osturňa

Traditional Wooden Houses of Osturňa

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Bridge Overlooking the Dunajec River

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