Pub to Pub Along the Berounka

A 20.2 km winter walk along the Berounka from Srbsko to Tetín's cliffs, a brewery stop in Beroun, the Děd lookout hill, and dinner at Zastávka Nižbor.

This is a winter classic of ours, planned backwards from dinner. The Zastávka Nižbor pub is the destination, and everything before it is just the way there. It is a walk for the cold months. The stops are warm, the distance is modest, and with a station at each end nobody has to drive home from a day built around beer.

From Srbsko station the path climbs onto the limestone rim and into Tetín, where St Ludmila was murdered in 921. From the cliff edge you look back down the Berounka gorge. Then the route descends into Beroun. Stop at the Berounský medvěd brewery for a warm-up taster, which matters more in December than the town’s gothic gates.

Beroun is also where the landscape changes. The route crosses the river out of the Český kras and climbs through the woods to Děd, the first lookout tower the KČT ever built. The tower has been closed for repairs in recent years, but the hill is still the one real climb of the day. From there it is rolling Křivoklátsko forest down to Nižbor and the old railway hut of the Zastávka pub. Have your beers and dinner there and take the train home from the halt next door.