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PROTECTED NATURAL HERITAGE
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GOLUBINJAK
Category of protection:
Year of proclamation:
Area:
Location:
Elevation:
Flora:
Fauna:
Vegetation:
Special features:
forest park
1961
51 ha
area of the municipality of Lokve (Gorski kotar)
ca. 730 – 800 m
Alpine rose, Alpine clematis, heartleaf oxeye, Alpine enchanter’s nightshade,
Austrian leopard’s bane, rare ostrich fern and other species of ferns
dormouse, squirrel, many forest birds, butterflies, coleoptera beetles, spiders
beech forest with fir, fir and spruce forest on calcareous blocks, fragments of
vegetation of carbonate forest rocks and vegetation of tall herbs
fir – the “Queen of the forest” and several interesting microclimatic, karst and cave
features (caves of Golubinja pećina and Ledena pećina, frost areas etc.)
The forest park can be reached by car if you turn right after the sign for Golubinjak from the old
Rijeka – Zagreb road, before the junction for Mrkopalj. Lokve railway station is in the immediate
vicinity of the forest park and from there an attractive footpath leads towards Golubinjak and
further on towards Lokve.
Access and starting point