High Scardus Trail (HST) is a transnational mountain tourism product connecting the mountain ranges in the border areas of Albania, Macedonia, and Kosovo. The name originates from the Latin name for the Shar Mountain, the biggest massive in the region, Scardus or colorful mountain. And colorful is what the HST is in terms of landscapes, biodiversity, people, tradition, and food!
Moving along the trail, you will travel through Macedonia, Kosovo, and Albania. You will go through settlements and villages, where communities of Macedonians, Albanians, Turks, Serbs, Gorans and others live separately or together. The population in the cross-border region by religion is both Orthodox Christian and Muslim and the languages spoken are: Macedonian, Albanian, Serbian, and Turkish.
Enrich the hikes in the mountains with visits to cultural monuments, churches, mosques, monasteries, and Turkish tekes. Visit the local, family-run workshops, where the traditional way of making home products, handicrafts and materials characteristic for the region is passed down from one generation to another.
- Why visit the High Scardus Trail
- Accommodation and food along the trail
- Public transport
- Tips
- Explanations for HST content
- An explanation of how the main and secondary paths of the High Scardus Trail (HST) pathways systems are graphically represented.
High Scardus Trails
• HST 1: Village of Staro Selo – Mountain Hut “Ljuboten” – Livadichko Ezero
• HST 2: Ski Center Brezovica – Bela Rojna – Crni Kamen Peak – Dobroshki Lakes – Jazhinachko Lake – Prevala
• HST 3: Prevala – the village of Ljubinjë e Epërme – Kobilica green pass – the village of Vejce
• HST 4: Village of Vejce – Guri i Epr – Guri i Gjat – village of Veshala
• HST 5: Village of Veshala – Leshnica – Djinibeg – Djinibeg Green Pass – the village of Brod
• HST 6: The village of Brod – Ski Center Ardzhena – Restelica – Radika Peak – Torbeshki Most
• HST 7: Torbeshki Most – Korab Peak – village of Radomirë
• HST 8: Village of Radomirë – Grame
• HST 9: Grame – the village of Zagrad
• HST 10: Village of Zagrad – Hinoskë
• HST 11: Hinoskë – Popinar – Grazhdan
• HST 12: Modrich – Jablanica – Lakavica – Steblevë
• HST 13: Steblevë – Qafa e Kryqit
• HST 14: Qafa e Kryqit, Qarrishtë – Zeze / Crn Kamen Peak – Vevchani
• HST 15: Ohrid – Bugarska Cuka – Lakosignoj – Mountain Hut Magaro
• HST 16: Mountain Hut Magaro – Kota F 10 – Pllaja e Pusit peak – the village of Gorna Gorica
