Hrušovská Cave is one of the most remarkable underground treasures of the Slovak Karst — a UNESCO World Heritage karst cave hiding underground waterfalls, cascades, rare speleothems and endemic wildlife deep beneath a forested hillside. Even though the cave itself is closed to visitors, the surrounding landscape on the border of the Silická and Horný Vrch plateaus is well worth exploring.
The cave entrance sits at 295 m above sea level at the foot of the rocky Soroška ridge, tucked into a steep wooded slope near an old quarry. The scenery is quintessential Slovak karst — quiet, wild and surprisingly scenic in every season. In spring and autumn the views across the surrounding hills are especially beautiful, and the knowledge that an underground stream flows somewhere beneath your feet gives the place an unforgettable atmosphere.
How to get thereOne of the cave's most extraordinary secrets is the endemic beetle Duvalius bokori gellidus, found nowhere else in the world outside the Silická Plateau. Discovered only in 1978 by Róbert Boroš, the cave's 1118 metres of passages continue to be explored exclusively by cavers — a hidden world waiting beneath the hills.
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