⚠️ Warning! Winter conditions in the mountains do not ease even in May. There is 10–30 cm of snow on the ridges.
The route starts at the parking lot at the bus stop. The second car park, at the guesthouse, is usually closed in winter. Unfortunately, there is not much parking anywhere else in Rejviz, so you won't have much choice.
Then you will follow the yellow tourist sign and the Rejviz nature trail. You will walk briefly along the road.
Once you reach the last hut, where the road ends and the forest path begins, we recommend continuing straight in winter.
From the Pod Rejvizem signpost, you will continue straight ahead, and after a kilometer you will reach the entrance to the Reserve.
Follow the blue tourist sign to the sidewalk. The route to the Great Moss Lake leads all the time over the hut pavement.
All around there are peat bogs, or marshes and mosses. You are in the Rejviz National Nature Reserve, which is the largest in Moravia and Silesia.
Gradually you will reach the signpost U Velke mechove jezirka, where you will turn right along the Rejviz nature trail. In a moment you will reach the lake itself.
Once upon a time, there was a Hun town called Hunohrad, whose inhabitants were sinful. And so one day, the whole city fell into the local swamps as punishment. It is said that on cloudless days, when the sun illuminates the surface of the Mechove jezirko (Moss Lake) in Rejviz, it is said that it is still possible to see the walls and the tower of the local church in both moss lakes. Velke Mechove jezirko should also contain the treasure of this city, which is guarded by the mysterious figure of the shepherd Gill, to whom several local legends are attached.
The way back follows the same route you came here from.
