Mavrovo

Mavrovo is well known tourist destination located in the high mountains in the western part of Macedonia. It's one of the best destinations in the country, popular for outdoor tourism and known for it’s huge potential and epic beauty. It is a hot spot for skiing and ice climbing during the winter, mountain biking, hiking, fishing, kayaking and climbing during the summer. It is open all year round-- a cradle for all kind of outdoor sports and activities. Macedonian sport climbers climb here between April and November and enjoy the beautiful and vivid rocks in the gorgeous canyon on Radika river.

Mavrovo Cave offers beautiful climbing routes bolted in the limestone walls and roofs in inside of the cave. The cave features sharp ad frictional limestone with all types of holds as well as tufa climbing. The routes are nicely bolted and some of them are even densely bolted, therefore are prefect for beginners.
The cave characterizes with powerful vertical climbing on most of the routes, with nice interesting lines and style of climbing followed with beautiful panoramic experiences during the most of the climbs.

Best season for climbing in Mavrovo is from April till November. Even in the rainy days, wearing a jacket, and enjoying climbing in the cave is beautiful experience -the cave is perfect for rainy days. Make sure you take along you gas burner to enjoy some warm coffee or tea during the chill summer days.

For accommodation, the most convenient logistic choice is t accommodate yourselves in Mavrovi Anovi village settlement area. Our recommendation is Ski Hut Gorica www.skihutgorica.com a mountain hut/hostel, where the climbing in Mavrovo started and is the climbing base and hub in Mavrovo. Please support the local climbing community.
Mavrovi Anovi offers 2x groccery stores, 3x taverns and 1x burek store.

Back in 2012, Kire Serafimovski and Vladimir Trpovski discovered the great breathtaking cave, which is pure climbing heaven. Years after, the first sport climbing routes were established. In that time, climbers obtained the permits for climbing from the authorities of the National Park “Mavrovo”, collected funds for bolts and equipment, planning and etc. but the steel-made bolts prevailed and a new sport climbing crag was born.

Everything began when Vladimir Trpovski, Dimitar Popov and Aleksandar Brborovic climbed the first routes in late May 2013. Now we can proudly say that Mavrovo offers great opportunities and potential for sport climbing. We are very grateful for the support and cooperation from the National Park “Mavrovo” as well to Zdravko Petrovski, the President of the Sport Climbing Club EXTREME –Skopje for their help in the realization of this very important project, Sport Climbing Crag-Mavrovo.
Since the crag is bolted Sport climbing Club VARDAR lead by Dimitar Popov is leading the development, maintenance and promotion of Mavrovo as a future hot spot destination.