{"id":32579,"date":"2026-10-07T22:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/?post_type=kno_miesto&#038;p=32579"},"modified":"2026-10-07T22:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:19:30","slug":"naucny-chodnik-a-kocyana-v-oraviciach","status":"publish","type":"kno_miesto","link":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/miesto\/naucny-chodnik-a-kocyana-v-oraviciach\/","title":{"rendered":"A. Kocy\u00e1n Educational Trail in Oravice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nature trail in Oravice is dedicated to Anton Kocy\u00e1n (1836\u20131916), a forester, taxidermist, and expert on Tatra nature, who managed the forests of the Orava Compossessorate in Oravice and Zuberec from 1871 to 1910. The trail, opened in 2015, offers two routes \u2013 an easy family trail and a more challenging all-day circuit.<\/p>\n<h2>What will you see?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Route B<\/strong> (3.2 km, 40 m elevation gain, about 1.5 h, 9 stops): from Orav\u00edce to the mouth of the Bobroveck\u00e1 valley, to the Pecisk\u00e1 peat bog and the Kocy\u00e1n spruce in Mihul\u010d\u00e1<\/li>\n<li><strong>Route A<\/strong> (14.6 km, 440 m elevation gain, about 5.5 h, 22 stops): Tich\u00e1 dolina, the border with Poland and Magura Mountain<\/li>\n<li>panels about the history of the Oravice settlement, mineral springs, wetlands, forest birds and bears<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Good to know<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Route B is easy and suitable for families with children.<\/li>\n<li>Route A partially overlaps with the red, route B with the blue tourist mark.<\/li>\n<li>You can park in Oravice, where a bus from Tvrdo\u0161\u00edn also runs.<\/li>\n<li>After the walk, you can relax in the thermal pools or take a trip to Jur\u00e1\u0148ova Valley.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Orawice_TN1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerzy Opio\u0142a<\/a> (CC BY-SA 4.0), <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mihulcza_Czuba_R%C3%B3w_Orawicki.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rafal Kozubek<\/a> (CC BY-SA 3.0), <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Oravica_T_63.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerzy Opio\u0142a<\/a> (CC BY-SA 4.0) \u2013 Wikimedia Commons<\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two nature trail routes following in the footsteps of forester and naturalist Anton Kocy\u00e1n \u2013 an easy 3.2 km around the Pecisk\u00e1 peat bog and a longer circuit to Magura.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":32576,"menu_order":0,"template":"","kno_vidiet_typ":[117],"kno_vidiet_obec":[138],"kno_vidiet_vlast":[123,129,122,121],"class_list":["post-32579","kno_miesto","type-kno_miesto","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kno_vidiet_typ-priroda-a-vyhliadky","kno_vidiet_obec-oravice","kno_vidiet_vlast-celorocne-otvorene","kno_vidiet_vlast-parkovisko","kno_vidiet_vlast-vhodne-pre-deti","kno_vidiet_vlast-vstup-zadarmo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_miesto\/32579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_miesto"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kno_miesto"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_miesto\/32579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32580,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_miesto\/32579\/revisions\/32580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kno_vidiet_typ","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_vidiet_typ?post=32579"},{"taxonomy":"kno_vidiet_obec","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_vidiet_obec?post=32579"},{"taxonomy":"kno_vidiet_vlast","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_vidiet_vlast?post=32579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}