Harrachsdorf: Hotels and Accommodation

Harrachov is home to the Mammoth K180 ski jumping hill. It is one of the six largest ski jumps in the world and hosts World Cup ski-flying competitions.

Culture

The Harrachov Glass Museum presents a historically and technologically coherent collection of historic glass from the production of the Harrachov glassworks. The collection documents more than 300 years of glassmaking in Nový Svět and comprises more than 5,000 exhibits. The Harrachov glassworks complex also offers a brewery tour and a beer tasting for glass workers.

At the Harrachov Mining Museum, you can see working tools and equipment from the mining industry, ore from local deposits, and preserved mining machinery from the 20th century. The tour tunnel is approximately 1,000 metres long and has an average temperature of 7 to 9°C.

Nature

The Šindelka exhibition is open to visitors interested in forestry and hunting. The exhibition includes an overwintering enclosure for wild animals and 32 taxidermied animals.

Along the Naučná Včelí stezka, information panels provide information about the lives of bees and beekeepers. The entire route is lined with beehives containing live bees; their arrangement follows the historical development of beekeeping.

The Naučná stezka Rybárna educational trail leads through the picturesque Anenské Valley to the place where Jan Nepomuk Count Harrach founded a trout fish farm. The Naučná stezka Rybárna offers a peaceful walk along the ponds of Harrachov that even very young children can manage. Interactive wooden panels explain which organisms live in and around the pond.

Mumlavský vodopád is a natural attraction in Harrachov, located 1.5 kilometres from the town centre.

Winter Sports

The Běžecký areál includes a 2.2-kilometre prepared and artificially snow-covered circuit that is homologated for professional sport.

Orientation

The Šindelka Harrachov Information Centre sells maps and guidebooks for the Krkonoše Mountains and recommends excursion routes as well as other exhibitions and museums of KRNAP. The Harrachov cable car is available to visitors all year round.

Other Places

Other places: Vysoke Nad Jizerou, Kacanovy, Semily, Žernov U Semil, Přepeře, Paseky Nad Jizerou, Tatobity, Stepanovice

To the higher-level travel overview: Semily District.