The highest and at the same time the best downhill skiing resort in the Tatras. It is located above Tatranská Lomnica, at the western foot of Lomnický štít (2653 m), at an altitude of 1750 to 2200 m above sea level. With its elevation, area and quality of ski trails, it is one of the best that Slovakia can currently provide to skiers. There are two “black” marked slopes in the resort, of which especially the extreme track No. 4 provides an unusual skiing experience even for the most experienced skiers.
Skalnaté Pleso does not have a snowmaking system and the winter season begins a little later than in the foothills, but skiing can be done here until May 15 or longer, which will be appreciated especially by fans of spring skiing. The resort is connected to Tatranská Lomnica by a cable car and downhill slopes of medium difficulty with a total length of 4800 m.
Skalnaté pleso is a moraine lake in the Tatras in Slovakia in the lowest part of the Skalnatá Valley.
It has an area of 1.23 ha, a depth of 2 m and is located at an altitude of 1,754 m above sea level. m..
Next to the lake is the Skalnaté pleso station of the Tatranská Lomnica-Lomnický štít cable car (valley station of the cable car to Lomnický štít, the top station of the cable car that runs from Tatranská Lomnica to Skalnaté pleso with an intermediate station. Start and cable car, which is out of order), chairlift to Lomnické sedlo, Observatory of the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Hotel Encián, Skalnatá chata and THS station.
In the dry season, it is without water, because during the construction of the cable car, they disturbed the impermeability of its bottom.
The Skalnaté Pleso Astronomical Observatory is located near Skalnaté Pleso at an altitude of 1,786 above sea level. The observatory was founded in 1943, when its first observations were made. In the building of the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory, there is also a meteorological station belonging to the Institute of Geophysics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Bratislava).
