Pusté Pole
Stará Ľubovňa District · Prešov Region · Slovakia
Photos: Jerzy Opioła, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons); Jan Pešula, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons); Jan Pešula, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Pusté Pole is a village in Slovakia.
Elevation: about 573 m above sea level. Population: 233 (2025). Mountains nearby: Eastern Carpathians.
Here and nearby on the site: 1 trail.
Facts: Wikidata, OpenStreetMap. More on Wikipedia
Trails nearby
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HardMulti-dayMarkedPusté Pole VaniškovceElevation profile323–1 153 m36.1 kmascent 1 113 m≈ 11.5 h walkingunder 1 km from the centre
ModerateTwo-dayMarkedĎurková LipanyElevation profile384–826 m19.2 kmascent 570 m≈ 6 h walking1.4 km from the centre
EasyOne-dayMarkedĎurková MinčolElevation profile507–1 153 m10.3 kmascent 15 m≈ 2.5 h walking2.9 km from the centre
ModerateTwo-dayMarkedČirč junction Kamenica, junctionElevation profile477–1 153 m19.7 kmascent 676 m≈ 6.5 h walking3.3 km from the centre
ModerateOne-dayMarkedKamenica Ždiare SaddleElevation profile466–975 m10.4 kmascent 689 m≈ 4 h walking4.3 km from the centre
EasyOne-dayMarkedÚstie Kalinovského Potoka Pod MinčolomElevation profile645–1 125 m3.3 kmascent 480 m≈ 2 h walking6.2 km from the centrePeaks nearby
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PeakMinčol (Čergov)Kyjovaltitude 1 157 m6.5 km from the centreMinčol (Hungarian Mincsol) is the highest summit of the Čergov mountains in eastern Slovakia, 1157 m high.
PeakSmrekovica (Branisko)Vyšný Slavkovaltitude 1 200 m19 km from the centreSmrekovica is the highest peak of the Branisko Mountains in eastern Slovakia, 1200 m high (1199.9 m to be exact).
PeakČierna hora (Levoča Mountains)Jakubanyaltitude 1 289 m21 km from the centreČierna hora is a 1289.4 m summit, the highest point of the Slovak Levoča Mountains (Levočské vrchy) – a flysch range of the Podhôľno-magurská region in eastern...What to visit
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Cheese dairies & pasturesFarma Kamenica — Family Sheep Farm and Cheese Dairy in ŠarišKamenica3.7 km from the centreKamenica is a village in northern Šariš, in the valley of the Kameničanka stream, at about 483 m above sea level.
Mountain meadowThe meadow of Čergov's Minčol, the highest peak of the Čergov mountainsKyjovaltitude 1 157 m6.5 km from the centreČergov's Minčol (Minčol, 1,157 m) is the highest summit of the Čergov mountains in eastern Slovakia, where the districts of Bardejov, Sabinov and Stará Ľubovňa of the...
RiverPoprad RiverStará Ľubovňa18 km from the centreThe Poprad is a river of Slovakia and Poland and a right-bank tributary of the Dunajec. It is about 174 km long: 113 km flow through Slovakia, 31 km form the border...
CastleĽubovňa CastleStará Ľubovňa19 km from the centreĽubovňa Castle (Ľubovniansky hrad) stands on a 548 m limestone hill above the town of Stará Ľubovňa and the left bank of the Poprad.
MuseumĽubovňa Open-Air Museum below the castleStará Ľubovňa19 km from the centreThe open-air museum below Ľubovňa Castle (Ľubovniansky skanzen) opened in 1985 on the meadows beneath the castle hill in Stará Ľubovňa.
ChurchWooden Church of St Francis of Assisi, HervartovHervartov22 km from the centreIn the middle of the village, on a small rise, stands the Roman Catholic wooden Church of St Francis of Assisi, built at the end of the 15th century in the Gothic...Craft nearby
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Craft producersSpišská Pálenica, Stará Ľubovňa: distillery tour and Spiš borovičkaStará Ľubovňa18 km from the centreSpiš boasts perhaps the oldest history of distilling in Europe: at the hillfort of Myšia Hôrka near Spišský Štvrtok, part of a distillation vessel from around 1500 BC...
Craft producersCastle Distillery below Ľubovňa Castle: fruit spirits and tastingsStará Ľubovňa19 km from the centreStará Ľubovňa is a town in northern Spiš, overlooked by Ľubovňa Castle. For more than three and a half centuries Ľubovňa was one of the Spiš towns pledged to the...
Craft producersNestville Distillery, Hniezdne — Home of the First Slovak WhiskyHniezdne21 km from the centreThis tradition is the basis for BGV, a company founded in 2001, which built the Nestville Distillery here.
Koliby & Hutsul cuisineSpišský salaš below Spiš Castle: Spiš cooking since 1964Spišská Kapitula26 km from the centreBetween Spiš Castle and Spišská Kapitula, at the edge of the plain below the travertine mound of Sivá brada, stands the wooden Spišský salaš.
Water parks & thermal poolsVyšné Ružbachy Spa: Izabela Mountain Pools and Indoor Thermal PoolVyšné Ružbachy27 km from the centreVyšné Ružbachy is one of Slovakia’s oldest spas. It lies on the south-eastern slope of the Spišská Magura at about 617 m, surrounded by coniferous forest that merges...
Water parks & thermal poolsBardejovské Kúpele: Wellness Spa Ozón and summer poolBardejov30 km from the centreBardejovské Kúpele is one of Slovakia’s oldest spas, a part of the town of Bardejov about 5 km from its centre, in a valley under the Magura massif that shelters it...Spas and thermal pools nearby
Water parks & thermal poolsVyšné Ružbachy Spa: Izabela Mountain Pools and Indoor Thermal PoolVyšné Ružbachy27 km from the centreVyšné Ružbachy is one of Slovakia’s oldest spas. It lies on the south-eastern slope of the Spišská Magura at about 617 m, surrounded by coniferous forest that merges...Water parks & thermal poolsBardejovské Kúpele: Wellness Spa Ozón and summer poolBardejov30 km from the centreBardejovské Kúpele is one of Slovakia’s oldest spas, a part of the town of Bardejov about 5 km from its centre, in a valley under the Magura massif that shelters it...Huts, shelters and springs nearby
Getting there from Ukraine
Border crossings
- Uzhhorod – Vyšné Nemecké — road, 24/7
- Malyi Bereznyi – Ubľa — road, 24/7 For cars and buses; pedestrians not confirmed by the Ukrainian border service, lorries up to 3.5 t.
- Mali Selmentsi – Veľké Slemence (pedestrian) — pedestrian, 09:00–21:00 Kyiv time Pedestrians and cyclists only; inconvenient for the Tatras without onward transport.
- Chop – Čierna nad Tisou (rail) — rail, 24/7
By car
From Lviv ≈382 km, ≈5 h 15 min without queues: M-10 → Krakovets – Korczowa → A4 to Brzesko → DK75 to Nowy Sącz → DK87 via Piwniczna-Zdrój to the internal Schengen crossing Piwniczna – Mníšek nad Popradom → I/68 to Stará Ľubovňa (≈304 km, ≈3 h 50 min from the Ukrainian border). From Uzhhorod ≈183 km, ≈3 h: Vyšné Nemecké → I/19 to Košice → D1 to Prešov → I/68 via Sabinov and Lipany to Stará Ľubovňa. Via Uzhok and Ubľa ≈408 km, ≈6 h 55 min. The D1 requires an e-vignette (eznamka.sk).
Checked 23.10.2026; border crossing hours and timetables change — check before you travel.
