Mountain shelter
Five Polish Ponds Hut
Poland · High Tatras range · 1 671 m
- Photo: Cybularny · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Photo: Jerzy Opioła · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Last edited on the OSM map 06.07.2025
- 1 671 m
- Sleeps up to 67
- Meals served
- All year
Practical info
- Run by: PTTK
- Local name: Schronisko PTTK w Dolinie Pięciu Stawów Polskich im. Leopolda Świerza
- Season: All year
- Food: Kitchen or buffet
- Built: 1953
- Contacts: piecstawow.pl
About
The Five Polish Ponds Hut is the highest mountain hut in Poland, standing at 1,671 m on the shore of Przedni Staw in the High Tatras. Run by PTTK and named after Leopold Świerz, it is open all year, has 67 beds and a TOPR rescue post next door.
The present stone building is the fifth hut in the valley. The first, a bare stone shelter, was put up in 1876; the predecessor of today's hut burned down in May 1945. The new one was built in the early 1950s on a different site and is regarded as one of the finest pieces of hut architecture in Poland. Its electricity comes from a small hydro plant fed by Wielki Staw.
The green trail climbs here through Dolina Roztoki from Wodogrzmoty Mickiewicza (with a black short-cut), and the blue trail comes from Morskie Oko over Świstowa Czuba and continues to Zawrat pass. The kitchen is famous for its apple pie. Mountain rescue: 985 or +48 601 100 300.
On the map
Coordinates: 49.21363, 20.04873
How to get there
from Wodogrzmoty Mickiewicza on the green trail up Dolina Roztoki, then the black trail, about 2 h.
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