Główny Szlak Beskidzki
PL · SKLive- 500
- km
- 19
- stages
- +20 229
- m ascent
- −19 856
- m descent
Stages, times and the profile follow the direction you pick.
Difficulty
Hard
avg +1,065 m/day · 26.3 km/day · 77 km without an overnight · hardest day +1,694 m
Derived from distance and ascent, not terrain grade — not a SAC or T-scale rating.
The Główny Szlak Beskidzki runs the length of the Polish Beskids on the red waymark. From Ustroń it climbs over Czantoria Wielka and Barania Góra, crosses to Pilsko and goes over Babia Góra (1,725 m), the highest point of the trail, and Polica. In the Gorce it passes Turbacz, drops to the Dunajec at Krościenko and climbs again over Radziejowa and Jaworzyna Krynicka to Krynica-Zdrój. The long middle is the Beskid Niski — low, forested and thinly settled, past Magura Wątkowska, Chyrowa, Rymanów-Zdrój and Komańcza. It ends in the Bieszczady: over Chryszczata and Smerek, along the open poloniny — Wetlińska and Caryńska — to Halicz, and down to Wołosate. A night at a PTTK hut most days in the west; villages and long days in the Beskid Niski.
Your own day-by-day draft. The stages below are the trail's published ones; your plan is set by the days you have.
Places along the way
Overnight network: moderate
77km
Longest stretch with no mapped overnight
km 325–402
46 overnight places · 5 potable water
21 huts · 9 lean-tos · 8 emergency · +8 other
+14 more within 2 km off route
Next longest: km 402–436 · 34 km
No mapped overnight here — carry water and food through.
Statistics
- 1 718
- m highest
- 310
- m lowest
- +20 229
- m ascent
- −19 856
- m descent
- 26.3
- km/day
- 19
- stages
Hardest stage Bacówka pod Honem → Chatka Puchatka +1 694 m
Stages
19-stage division of the Główny Szlak Beskidzki (Ustroń → Wołosate, OSM relation 545421) on the 2026-10-24 line; nights at PTTK huts in Bivaq where one lies on the line, else villages (Nominatim points); owner A 2026-10-24 · updated 2026-10-24
Good to know
- Route
- Ustroń → Wołosate
- Season
- June–September
- Daylight
- 16 h 14 mid-June · 12 h 31 mid-September
- Waymarking
- red
- Managed by
- PTTK
- Overnight rules: camping is not allowed in the national parks the trail crosses (Babia Góra, Gorce, Magura, Bieszczady) outside their designated sites. Outside the parks, the State Forests' "Zanocuj w lesie" areas allow a night in the forest — up to two nights and nine people without notice, fire only where the forester allows it; the areas are on the Bank Danych o Lasach map (mBDL app). Check the current rules of each park and forest district.
- Huts: PTTK huts (schroniska, bacówki) stand on or near the ridge in the west; book ahead in summer. In the Beskid Niski there are few — plan nights in the villages and carry food for the stretch.
- Bieszczady: the national park charges an entry fee. Bears and wolves live here — keep food packed away at night.
- Water: the ridges are dry for long stretches, especially in the Beskid Niski and on the poloniny; refill at huts and villages.
- Getting there: Ustroń has a railway station. Wołosate is a hamlet at the end of the road — buses run via Ustrzyki Górne, sparse outside summer; check the timetable before the last day.
Route & elevation: OSM relation 545421 (Główny Szlak Beskidzki, Ustroń → Wołosate) + Copernicus GLO-30, 2026-10-24 · imported 2026-10-24
Elevation figures · full-res GPX, 10 m threshold
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Terrain: © Copernicus DEM GLO-30
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