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Overview
About Prošćansko Lake
Why stop
- A quieter-feeling, reed-fringed lake in the Upper Lakes landscape.
Heads up
- Reaching it takes the E route's boat crossing and an upstream walk.
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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 Prošćansko Lake, 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.
Recorded for this place
Entrance 2 and the Upper Lakes0:00 / 0:33
“Up ahead is the arrival area for Entrance Two, with the ticket gate farther inside the complex. For the Upper Lakes, Program E is a good choice: allow two to three hours for the boat crossing, lake walk and return ride.”
Plays as you drive up to Prošćansko Lake in the Parkwolf Plitvice Lakes Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Black River on Velika Poljana
- Hotel Jezero and Kozjak Café
- Mukinje and Vučnica Bistro
- The Opera Singer and the Cascades
- 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
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
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More about Prošćansko Lake
At the far end of the Upper LakesProšćansko Lake is one of Plitvice's 12 Upper Lakes and the upstream end of the 16-lake chain,…
Prošćansko Lake is one of Plitvice's 12 Upper Lakes and the upstream end of the 16-lake chain, whose lakes cascade into one another. Give it time if you want the more wooded, quieter-feeling stretch of the park; it's part of a route-based outing, not a roadside pullout.
The E route is how to reach itThe park's published E lake route starts at Entrance 2, crosses Lake Kozjak by electric boat,…
The park's published E lake route starts at Entrance 2, crosses Lake Kozjak by electric boat, then follows a marked walk upstream to Prošćansko. The return is by sightseeing train. Plan around that boat-and-walk circuit rather than expecting to wander freely along every bank. Stay on marked trails, and don't swim in the lakes.
What makes the Upper Lakes differentThe Upper Lakes formed over impermeable dolomite.
The Upper Lakes formed over impermeable dolomite. The park describes them as larger, with more indented and gentler shores than the Lower Lakes. Prošćansko is one link in the chain of lakes that spill into one another over the park's natural barriers.
A reed-fringed north shoreNear Labudovac, a wooden boardwalk follows the lake's north shore.
Near Labudovac, a wooden boardwalk follows the lake's north shore. From there you can see water, reeds and wooded slopes together. For a lake photo, keep some reeds along the bottom of the frame; they give the long water-and-forest view a clear foreground.
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.
