Transport
Without quality entrance to recreational area tourism would decline. One of the priorities of frequent visiting is developed transport as well as infrastructure of hotels, sport centres and conditions for tourism. Developed transport ensures comfortable entrance to natural beautys of our Hight Tatras. You can get into area of Hight Tatras by road travelling, but rail connection has more important function and there is also an airport near Poprad, where international flights are provided. There is also rare funicular railway directly in this area.
1. Road transportion
Road connection between Poprad and Stary Smokovec is 14 km long and it is very important as well as a highway connecting Ruzomberok and Vazec. The main road connection in the area of Tatras is cesta Slobody (Road of Liberty) crossing whole foot of Tatras mountains and connecting all Tatras villages from Podbanske to country border Lysa Polana. This road was open as tourist road on September 4th in 1889 and Maria Theresa was in attendance at it. Later the road was made wider to 6 metres and more stable. The first car was driven downthis road in the year 1900 and name of the road was changed to cesta Slobody in 1919. At the end of 60´s of 20th century it was made longer in part between Strbske Pleso and Podbanske. Nowadays, it is impossible to imagine an existence of tourism in the smallest mountains in the world without our “Tatras road motorway“.
2.Rail transportion
A developement of railway system helped to increase an interest in Tatras. A railway line between Kosice and Bohumin (from 1882 connecting also Bratislava and Vienna) connecting Tatras with the rest of the world, is not important only in area of Slovakia. From 1896 there is also a cog – wheel train connecting Tatranska Strba and Strbske Pleso as the only one of this kind in High Tatras. Nowadays whole system of railway lines is electrified and the tramcars connect all villages between Strbske Pleso and Tatranska Lomnica. At the end of year 2000 a modernization of tramcars started. There is a newer model of tramcars to make your travelling comfortable, safer and quieter. A capacity of the new model of tramcars is 200 persons. In the present it is possible for passengers to take their cars with to the train connecting Prague and Poprad.
3.Air transportion
An airport near Poprad (715 m) that can be used by airplanes with capacity of 200 persons has improved the quality of transportation very much. The airport provides scheduled flights as well as sightseeing flights and sport flights. A runway is also used by Slovak emergency systems and air operations THS.
4.Funicular transportion
It provides a transportion of people to a higher areas during the winter and summer season. The most important cable railways are:
The land cableway to Hrebienok
It transports people from Stary Smokovec (1025m) to Hrebienok (1263m). The line is 1937m long and 238 m high. The maximum gradient reachs 14,9% and maximum transport capacity is 900 persons per hour. The ride takes 8 minutes. The cableway is very important for Smokovec as well as for whole region, because Hrebienok is one of the most important points to start a tour across the mountains. During the winter it also transports skiers to the slopes lying in Hrebienok mountains.
Cabine cable railway to Skalnate Pleso
Because of an existence of ski resort in Sklanate pleso (1764 m) it was needed to create a connection with Tatranska Lomnica (900 m). There was a elevated cable railway connecting the stations before, but because of the lack of capacity it was replaced by cabine cable railway in 1973 and from the year 1995 there is a modern cabine cable railway. The line is 3450 m long and 864 m high. The ride takes 14 minutes and maximum transport capacity is 900 persons per hour.
Elevated cable railway to Lomnický stit
It is the only one cable railway in High Tatras, that enables to enter Tatras peak. Until the year 2001 there was also a elevated cable railway connecting Tatranska Lomnica and Lomnicky stit (2632 m), but nowadays there is only a elevated cable railway moving between Skalnate Pleso (1764 m) and Lomnicky Stit, because people are transported to Skalnate Pleso by cabine cable railway. A line is 1872 m long and the transport takes 8 minutes. The cabin is suitable for maximum amount of 29 persons and transport capacity is 75 persons per hour.
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