The Zadnia Jaworowa Valley is the highest-lying, eastward-turning tier of the Jaworowa Valley system in the Slovak High Tatras — a wild, terraced cirque enclosed by soaring ridges and dramatic peaks. If you are looking for raw mountain scenery away from the crowds, this remote valley delivers in full.
The landscape is strikingly alpine: steep rock walls, sweeping scree fields and the rushing Jaworowy Stream guide you deeper into the valley. Beneath the walls of Jaworový štít, at an elevation of 1,881 m, lies Žabie Javorové pleso — a small greenish mountain lake that is regularly buried under rockfall, which over centuries has built up a massive scree cone above the water. In winter the valley disappears under a thick blanket of snow and is only suitable for experienced mountaineers; in summer it transforms into a quiet, stony paradise with views stretching along the main Tatra ridge.
How to get thereNear the valley threshold, at around 1,700 m, a commemorative plaque once honoured legendary Tatra guide Klimek Bachleda, who died in 1910 during a rescue operation on the face of Malý Javorový štít — after World War II it was relocated to the Symbolic Tatra Cemetery.