Cradle of Tramping

An easy 16.9 km through the cradle of Czech tramping — Sázava valley cabin settlements from Kamenný Přívoz via Luka pod Medníkem to the Remagen bridge at Davle.

An easy half-day from Prague that doubles as a history lesson in Czech tramping: the lower Sázava valley is where the whole cabin-and-campfire culture began in the 1920s, and this route walks straight through its heartland — log cabins with American names, totem poles, and the Posázavský pacifik railway threading the gorge.

From the Kamenný Přívoz stop the way passes under the great stone railway viaduct at Žampach — one of the tallest in Central Europe — and follows the wooded valley through Studené to Luka pod Medníkem. The settlements en route, Dakota among them, are the real thing: century-old tramp osady still lived in every weekend. The middle section climbs over the river bluffs, the one stretch of actual effort, before easing down the valley side.

The finish is Davle at the Sázava–Vltava confluence, across the iron bridge that Hollywood cast as the bridge at Remagen in 1968. Trains run from Davle back to Prague along the Vltava.