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Overview
About Josip Jović Memorial
Why stop
- A reflective memorial tied directly to Plitvice’s modern history.
Heads up
- Safe roadside access and stopping remain unclear.
Map
Where it is
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Before you go
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Plitvice Lakes Tour Guide
Your drive to Josip Jović Memorial, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Plitvice Lakes National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Black River on Velika Poljana0:00 / 0:32
“Black River Steak and Pasta House is coming up on Velika Poljana, near Entrance Two. Stop here if you want a full sit-down meal, with steak or handmade pasta as the main draw.”
Plays on the road 0.1 km from Josip Jović Memorial in the Parkwolf Plitvice Lakes Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Entrance 2 and the Upper Lakes
- Hladovina and the Medveđak Ridge
- Hotel Jezero and Kozjak Café
- Mukinje and Vučnica Bistro
- 39 audio storiesacross Plitvice Lakes’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Beaver, Grey Heron, Great Cormorant, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 15 trails, 36 places, and audio download before you lose signal
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Guide
More about Josip Jović Memorial
A brief, reflective stopJosip Jović Memorial is a small roadside war monument on the Entrance 2 side of Plitvice Lakes…
Josip Jović Memorial is a small roadside war monument on the Entrance 2 side of Plitvice Lakes National Park, along the main road about 1.5 km from Mukinje on the park’s half-marathon route. It marks the place where police officer Josip Jović was killed on Easter Sunday, 31 March 1991, aged 21. Think of it as a quiet remembrance stop rather than another waterfall or lakeside walk.
Access is the catch: a safe pull-off, visitor parking, and a pedestrian approach could not be verified. Don’t make an improvised roadside stop or walk along the road; visit only if you can confirm a safe, permitted way to reach the monument.
The event it marksThe Plitvice Lakes police operation responded to the park’s occupation and a blockade on a key…
The Plitvice Lakes police operation responded to the park’s occupation and a blockade on a key north–south road. Jović was the first Croatian police officer killed in the Homeland War; the park says nine officers were wounded. Heavy snow and thick fog covered Plitvice that Easter morning, a stark part of the story behind this small memorial.
Find the right memorialThis is the roadside monument near Entrance 2, not the separate memorial centre in Jović’s…
This is the roadside monument near Entrance 2, not the separate memorial centre in Jović’s hometown of Aržano. No visitor facilities were identified at the monument itself, and nearby park services are separate stops whose access from the roadside memorial is not established.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Plitvice Lakes
20 sightingsBeaverMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
29 sightingsGrey HeronMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
14 sightingsGreat CormorantMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
84 sightingsMerganserMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
13 sightingsDipperMost seen around 8 AMSighting map
201 sightingsMallardMost seen around 5 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Plitvice Lakes. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
