This stunning national park offers some of the world's best mountain views with trails for every type of hiker, yet many travelers have never heard of it.

POPRAD, Slovakia — Slovakia’s High Tatras mountain range sits quietly in the shadow of the Alps yet within a compact 40-by-15-mile range stand two dozen peaks between 7,000 and 8,700 feet. Don’t feel ...

Stretching for just under 3.5km, the Pramenisko nature trail winds through the oldest montane floodplain forest in Slovakia’s Tatra National Park. Right now, it is getting some attention of its own.

“Outdoor Crowd Treks to Slovakia,” by John Henderson in the June 28 Travel section reminded me of a driving trip my wife and I took through that area in 2003. There were very few cars on the road, and ...

The Polish side of the Tatras is developing more dynamically. When we reach Tatranská Javorina, tracing the road from Ždiar, a stretch of asphalt under repair greets us. It’s a modest sign of change ...

HREBIENOK, Slovakia (Reuters) - Fifteen sculptors worked three weeks to shape 90 tonnes of ice into a gothic-style dome that opened to visitors last week in the High Tatra mountains of Slovakia. Built ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 34, No. 4, Focus Issue: Family Farming in Mountains—Institutional and Organizational Arrangements in the Context of Globalization (Nov 2014), pp. 326-335 (10 ...