Latiborská hoľa (1,648 m a.s.l.) is a wide open summit in the Low Tatras that delivers a full 360-degree panorama without a single tree to block the view. If you love that feeling of standing on a grassy ridge with the whole mountain world spread around you, this peak is exactly what you are looking for.
The summit sits in the western Low Tatras, within the Prašivá ridge, between Ďurková (1,750 m) to the east and Veľká hoľa (1,640 m) to the west. The treeless, low-vegetation summit plateau means you can see the surrounding Low Tatra peaks in every direction, as well as the Malá and Veľká Fatra ranges, the Western Tatras, the Kremnica Hills, the Chočské vrchy, the Orava Magura, the Beskydy, the Veporské vrchy and Poľana. Spring brings wildflowers to the alpine meadows, summer offers a breezy escape from the valley heat, autumn turns the surrounding forests into a sea of colour, and winter transforms the hoľa into a stark, windswept wilderness.
How to reach the summitThe ridge of Latiborská hoľa forms a watershed between the Váh river basin to the north and the Hron river basin to the south — stand on the summit and you are quite literally between two of Slovakia's greatest rivers.