Known as the 'Czech Fuji', Růžovský vrch is a striking basalt cone that rises nearly 300 metres above the surrounding sandstone landscape of Bohemian Switzerland — making it the highest peak in the national park at 620 m a.s.l. and an unmissable landmark visible from miles around.
The steep volcanic slopes are draped in ancient mixed forest — maple, beech and ash towering above boulder fields where rare lichens, fungi and insects thrive. Each season brings its own character: spring wildflowers carpet the forest floor, summer turns the canopy into a cool green vault, autumn sets the hillside ablaze with colour, and winter cloaks everything in quiet mystery. The forested summit itself offers no panoramic view, but rewards you with a wooden cross, a summit register, and a rare sense of genuine wilderness.
How to reach the summitGermanic tribes reportedly venerated this perfectly shaped cone as Asgard, home of the gods — and the mountain may even have inspired Caspar David Friedrich's iconic painting 'Wanderer above the Sea of Fog' (1818), where the distinctive silhouette of Růžák is said to appear in the background.