Skywalk

Dear friends of the Biokovo Nature Park, we are happy to inform you that the works on the lookout have been officially completed and that the grand opening will be on Wednesday, 1 July. The lookout will be open to all visitors from Thursday, 2 July 2020.

The construction of Skywalk Biokovo is part of the project New Adrion – Promoting sustainable management of natural heritage of Biokovo NP, funded by the European Regional Development Fund, within the Operational Program Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014-2020, being financially the largest and the most demanding project in the history of the public institution “Biokovo Nature Park”.

The total project value is approximately HRK 31 million, of which grants from the European Structural and Investment Funds amount to around HRK 27 million. The remainder is financed from the Fund for Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency, as well as the beneficiaries’ and partners’ own funds – Makarska Development Agency MARA and the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service (CMRS).

The most striking and complex part of this EU project is the construction of a horseshoe-shaped glass-surface lookout protruding from a cliff called Skywalk Biokovo. About eight million kuna was invested in building and reconstructing the existing lookout.

Skywalk Biokovo is located in the southwestern part of the Biokovo Nature Park, in the area of Ravna Vlaška, at an altitude of 1228 meters above sea level, on the 13th km of the Biokovo road and next to the info centre. As part of the lookout, a geological pillar was built – a three-dimensional view of the cross-section of the rocks that formed the Biokovo area, with a geological timetable and a description of the age and type of rocks.

The lookout point can be reached via the Biokovo road, which leads from the entrance to the Biokovo Nature Park, approximately 6 km east of Makarska, to the highest Biokovo peak, Sveti Jure, at an altitude of 1762 meters, which makes it the highest paved road in Croatia.