Skole Beskids National Park
A forested Beskid park in the Lviv Carpathians with waterfalls, rounded ridges and long marked trails.
Updated 21 October 2026
The park, created in 1999 to protect the beech and beech-fir forests, covers around thirty-five thousand hectares of the Skole Beskids, rounded forested ridges rising to about twelve hundred metres, cut by the Opir and Stryi rivers. Beech and fir cover most of it. The Kamianka waterfall is the best-known single feature, a set of drops on a stream near Skole, and marked trails run up to Parashka and the other summits with views along the whole Beskid line.
The landscape
- Kamianka waterfall - a set of drops on a stream a short walk from Skole.
- Mount Parashka - a 1,268-metre summit with a long view along the Beskids.
- The beech forest - old woodland covering the ridges and valleys.
- The rivers - the Opir and Stryi running through the park.
When to go
May to October is the walking season, with autumn colour in the beech forest the best of the year. Snow lies on the ridges from December to April. Trails are muddy after rain.
Good to know
The waterfall is small and busy at weekends. Trail marking is inconsistent in places. Facilities inside the park are minimal and Skole is the base for everything.
Nearby
Tustan is north at Urych, and Truskavets is northwest.
Key facts
Source: Wikidata, item Q12501413, read on 18 October 2026.
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