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What is useful to know if you want to visit the National Park Plitvice Lakes?

Entrance fee

• Adults 110 Kuna (app. 15 Euro) / winter (01.11-31-03) 70 Kuna
• Children over 7 years 55 Kuna (app.7.5 Euro) winter / 40 Kuna

Entrance and Parking:

The park has two entrances with large parking areas (fee 7 kuna/hour), at the entrances you find maps with predefined tour/routes which you can follow:

Entrance 1 is starting point for program A, B, C, G2 and K (which is the largest tour).

• A (2-3h) is lower parts of national park, only walking
• B (3-4h) is lower part of national park including sailing on lake Kozjak
• C (4-6h) Walking, bus to upper parts of national park and sailing on lake Kozjak
• K (6-8h) Walking around Whole national park.
• G2 (3-4h) Walking Sailing and bus, lower and mid part of park.

Entrance 2 is starting point for program E, H, F, GI, and K.

• E (2-3h) Upper parts of national park, only walking
• F (3-4h) Like B tour. Only different starting point
• H (4-6h) Like C tour. Only different starting point
• K (6-8h) Walking around Whole national park.
• G1 (3-4h) Walking Sailing and bus, Upper and mid part of national park.

When is the best time to visit park:

National Park Plitvice Lakes is a beautiful sight whole year, so I can’t really recommend best time to visit, in the summer the park has around 11.000 visitors a day so I can get a bit crowded, so I personally prefer to visit the park at other times of the year.

Here you can see our summer photos of the park: Plitvice Summer photos

Here you can see some autumn photos of the Park Plitvice Autumn

Staying overnight at Plitvice:

HOTELS:

The following hotels are inside the park area, so by staying overnight here you have the National park at your “doorstep”. – But you also pay for that!!

Hotel Bellevue - 60 rooms (38 double, 16 triple, 6 single)
Hotel Jezero - 210 rooms + 7 suites + 5 disability
Hotel Plitvice - 51 rooms + 1 senior suite
Hotel Grabovac - 31 rooms (23 double, 8 triple)

CAMPSITE:

6 km north of entrance in the city/area Korana you have a large campsite. With 42 “bungalows”, 550 camping units on a land plot of 35 hectares.

PRIVATE ACCOMODATIONS:

The cheapest option for an overnight stay is private accommodation, in the area around National Park Plitvice Lakes, there are plenty of private accommodations to choose between; personally I like to stay in Korona which is beautiful area 6 km from entrance nr.1, here you have pure nature, small waterfalls outside the window and here you might ending up looking first hand at a bear!!!

Here is where we stayed at our last visit to National Park Plitvice Lakes:

You can contact owner at info(at)sankorana.com, his name is Ivica.

Other thinks which might be useful to know.

• No need to say you need to bring some good walking shoes, around the park you will walk on wooden paths, with lots of short steps, so good footwear is a must.
• Bring plenty of water and consider bringing your own lunch; you can buy food and drinks at the park, but prices are relatively high and in summer I can get crowded at the park restaurants.
• Notice the park is very clean, so do yours to keep it that way, there are plenty of garbage dumpsters.
• Stay at that marked paths, mind you are in park with wild animals, like bears, wolves and 19 different kinds of snakes.

Hope this was helpfull, Enjoy Plitvice!!

With close to a million visitors the National Park Plitvice lakes is one of the most visited tourist sites in Croatia, since 1949 the area has been declared as a national park and has during they years been expanded several times, so that the national park now covers and area of more than 300 km2, which makes it one of the largest nature parks in Europe.

The parks unique flora and fauna, was one of the main reason why UNESCO in 1979 appointed the National park as a World nature heritage site. On the official homepage of the National park you find detailed information about plants and animals in the park Plitvice homepage

At our last visit here in the beginning of October, the national part was “dressed” in the autumn colors, green, yellow and brown, I think it was quite beautiful?

What do you think?

If you plan to visit National Park Plitvice, maybe you should have look at our  guide to National Park Plitvice