Sheshul (1728 m a.s.l.) is a rewarding and relatively quiet summit in the western part of the Chornohora massif, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine. It offers sweeping views of the highest peaks in the Ukrainian Carpathians without the crowds you might find on its famous neighbours.
The slopes and summit are covered with grassy and shrubby vegetation along with vast blueberry fields — a fragrant treat in summer and a blaze of colour in autumn. Lower down, beech and beech-fir forests take over. From the top, the panorama is spectacular: Petros (2020 m) rises to the northeast, Hoverla (2061 m) — the highest peak in Ukraine — stands to the east, and across the Black Tysa valley to the northwest you can spot the Svydovets ridge with Blyznytsya (1883 m). The entire summit lies within the Chornohora Nature Reserve, part of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, making it a genuinely pristine corner of the Carpathians.
How to reach the summitA curious cartographic footnote: Soviet-era and later Ukrainian maps long listed Sheshul's elevation as 1689 m — a figure that actually belongs to the neighbouring peak Kopytsia. Pre-war Polish maps were closer to the truth at 1726 m, and precise modern surveys finally confirmed 1728 m.