Walking and cycling tours

Pálos tour – Pálos forrás (spring) and és monastery ruins

Leaving Óhuta in the direction of Regéc, turn right off the paved road and then walk about 1 km to the Pálos forrás.

(monastery ruins, spring, lake)

Babuka tour – Babuka tó (lake)

Starting behind the delicatessen in Óhuta, you have to walk about 1.5 km to Babuka tó. (spring, lake, look-out, fireplace)

Czárán tour – Éles-bérc, Czárán pihenő (rest area)

From the Glassworks, we set off on the road leading between the fences of two houses in the direction of Éles-bérc. After crossing the footbridge, we continue to the left along the old forest road. After a 10-minute walk, we reach Éles-kő, below which by turning right at the upper end of a small group of pines we leave the wide road and climb up to the top of the rock. Here we continue along a well-travelled forest road, and after 5 minutes we reach Susogó tisztás. From there, after another 5 minutes of walking, you will find Czárán pihenő (rest area) on the left before the road bend. (Éles-bérc)

Tour 1:

From the centre of the village (the road under the house that preserves folk traditions) start on the forest road (no sign) to the Glassworks (junction: towards Óhuta and Középhuta) – then walk to Óhuta on the asphalt road, back to Középhuta on the asphalt road.

Level: easy

Distance: 4 km

Tour 2:

Középhuta – Újhuta, turn right at the blue square after the castle (approx. 1.2 km) – after the wooden bridge turn right on the forest road (800 m) – Zsidó rét – turn left at the blue sign and there you find Eszkála – Gerendás rét – follow the green sign to Újhuta (approx. 1 km) – Középhuta

Level: easy

Distance: 9 km

Tour 3:

Cross the wooden bridge at the Középhuta sign, then follow the yellow sign to Mlaka rét – from here follow the yellow triangle sign to Sólyombérc (nice view, rock climbing school) – follow the blue sign to István kút 1 km (protected birch forest) – follow the blue sign to Gerendás rét – blue triangle: Kerekkő (beautiful panorama) – on the green sign, touching Flórika forrás (rest area) 1 km to Újhuta – Középhuta

Level: medium

Distance: 12 km

Tour 4:

Cross the wooden bridge at the Középhuta sign, then follow the yellow sign to Mlaka rét – from here follow the yellow triangle sign to Sólyombérc (beautiful view, rock climbing school) – Mlaka rét – follow the yellow sign (through the wonderful Ördög völgy) to Kőkapu (Károlyi castle, boating lake, narrow-gauge railway) – back: on the green sign next to Komlóska stream 6 km to the blue square sign – on the blue square to Újhuta – Középhuta. (You can also get back on the asphalted forest road, or continue on the steep slope that continues to the lest of the asphalt road, following the green sign.)

Level: medium

Distance: 13 km

Tour 5: Középhuta – Regéc (shorter)

On the asphalt road until reaching Óhuta, at the end of Óhuta, next to the football field, turn left along the Red sign, the Red-Blue Trail leads up to the castle ruins.

Distance: 13 km

Tour 6: Középhuta – Regéc circular tour (longer)

To István kút it is the same as Tour 3, from István kút follow the Blue sign to Regéc, or follow the Blue sign and then take the Green sign at the Tokár tető to Regéc.

On the way, touching the Nagy-Péter Menykő kilátó (look-out point) on the blue triangle (beautiful panorama), as well as Pengő kő and Tokár tető peak, and back following the Red sign to Óhuta, then on the asphalt road to Középhuta.

Level: a little harder due to the distance

Distance: 21 km

Tour 7: Középhuta – Újhuta – Makkoshotyka – Sárospatak or Sátoraljaújhely

From Középhuta, at Újhuta on the Green sign to Gerendás rét, then along the Blue trail to Makkoshotyka touching Eszkála, Zsidó rét and Cifra kút, from there continue on the Blue trail to Sátoraljaújhely, touching Cirkáló tanya. Or by walking from Cifra kút on the blue square through Hercegkút, we arrive at Sárospatak.

Level: difficult due to distance

Distance: Sárospatak: 23 km

Distance: to Sátoraljaújhely: 32 km

Tour 8: Zemplén endurance hike

Distance: 50 km

Level rise: 1580 m

Level time: 12 hours

Start: Mogyoróska, Templom tér (Templom square)

Destination: Sátoraljaújhely, railway station

The main route: along the line of the National BLUE Trail, touching the Yellow and Red signs.

Level: It cannot be classified as a very difficult tour, there is relatively little elevation gain, it can be comfortably completed on foot in 12 hours. If someone is in good condition, trained, likes to hike, and walks on a regular basis, has willpower and endurance, then it can be done.

Pálos tour – Pálos forrás (spring) and monastery ruins

Leaving Óhuta in the direction or Regéc, turn right off the paved road and then walk about 1 km to the spring (monastery ruins, spring, lake)

Babuka tour – Babuka tó (lake)

Starting behind the general store in Óhuta, you have to walk about 1.5 km to Babuka tó (spring, lake, lookout, fireplace)

Tour 7:

Középhuta – Újhuta – Flórika-forrás (spring) – Gerendás-rét – on the blue sign to the left to István kút – on the Yellow sign (forest road) Glassworks – Középhuta

Level: easy hike in forest terrain

Distance: approx. 12 km

Tour 8:

Középhuta – Glassworks – Óhuta – junction at Dorgó (right before Regéc, forest road closed with a barrier) - Pengő kő – Nagy Péter menykő – István kút – on the Blue sign to Gerendás rét – Flórika forrás to the right on the asphalt road – Újhuta – Középhuta

Level: forest terrains with climbs, mountain bike required

Distance: 25 km

Tour 9:

Középhuta – Újhuta – Hercegkút – Sárospatak – Középhuta

After Újhuta, we turn right at the cross, the forest tourist road marked with a Blue square leads to Hercegkút. The length of the forest road is 4 km.

Level: forest terrain, sometimes with steep inclines, requires practice and good equipment

Distance: 35 km